Researchers examining the brains of living people found that they differed more substantially than Neanderthals' brains ...

The brain is more mechanically connected to the body than previously appreciated, Penn State scientists reported in Nature Neuroscience, noting the connection could be a potential biological mechanism ...

Individuals who carry common genetic variants associated with autism tend to have lower density in the brain’s microscopic ...

Sleep is not a passive state but an active period of restoration, one that depends on the coordination of systems that are ...

Teleportation sounds clean until the machinery gets involved. A person steps into a chamber, presses a button, and appears ...

AT THE end of the 2022 movie, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, a rather alarming third eye opens in the middle of ...

Researchers at Center for BrainHealth at The University of Texas at Dallas have identified a specific feature of sleep that ...

The hippocampus follows a "tabula plena" model, starting with dense, random connections that are pruned into an efficient ...

The evolutionary case for eating meat is etched into human anatomy — but so is the case against it. The science deserves more ...

In his 2024 blog on engaging learning titled Attack of the Zombie Learning Theories!, Richard Culatta debunks several myths ...

The hippocampus is a key brain region involved in memory formation and spatial orientation. It transforms short-term memories ...

Tinnitus, a.k.a. that “ringing in your ears,” is a relatively common symptom, according to audiologists. Technically, tinnitus encompasses any perception of sound where theres ...