Practice may do more than make perfect. Researchers found that extensive training physically reorganizes the brain, allowing ...

FREEZING your severed head, having 20-year ‘marriage reviews’ and plugging hard drives into your brain to remember your ...

According to a new study presented at the Society for Environmental Biology conference in Florence, Italy, in early July, as ...

They are used to build brain cells, keeping the cell walls flexible and enabling the neurons to sprout new connections and ...

From natural wayfinding to communal memory, eleven human abilities science confirms we have lost over time. The post 11 Human ...

The study reveals that prenatal fructose exposure directly alters neural stem cells (NSCs), the foundational master cells ...

Saudi Aramco is considering expanding its global oil-storage network after the Iran war exposed the importance of strategic reserves in keeping crude flowing to customers. “Aramco has storage ...

The human brain contains roughly 86 billion neurons, and for decades scientists have assumed that these cells are the primary ...

Here’s one of the more unsettling schemes to recently emerge from Silicon Valley: human clones grown without a conscious brain. At least one biotech start-up reportedly has quixotic ambitions of ...

For most of human evolution, the story of the brain seemed to move in one direction: up. Over millions of years, our ancestors’ brains expanded from ape-sized organs into the relatively oversized ...