The brain's cerebellum doesn't waste energy analyzing every moment. Instead, it constantly monitors the world for the ...

A compound closely associated with intense psychedelic experiences might also be one of the brain’s own tools for surviving a stroke. New research from Hungary found that this naturally occurring ...

Biohacker Bryan Johnson invested $60 million into a brain-tracking headset. How well does it work?

Nine new Challenge Programme grants from the Novo Nordisk Foundation will support ambitious research across fungal diseases, ...

A new study led by Alexandra Morton-Hayward explains how low-oxygen burial conditions lead to human brain preservation for thousands of years.

The wiring and rewiring of the brain never ends. Neural pathways are constantly being reshaped as we interact with the world ...

Cadillac entered the top class at Le Mans from 2023. Ker Robertson / There was an understandable feeling of disappointment ...

A drug that raises levels of histamine – the chemical that causes allergy symptoms – in the brain boosts our memory by around ...

The neurobiologist Erich Jarvis studies the few species capable of speech. He has long hoped to genetically engineer an ...

Line up the brains of a fish, bird and a mammal, and something unexpected comes up. You do not see three different answers to the problem of making sense of the world. You see one answer, tilted three ...

One of the world's leading brain research centers is shifting away from fruit flies and toward a tiny, transparent fish. The ...

Alice Stanton’s friends call her a brain engineer. It’s an apt title for the scientist who developed the first complete tissue model of the human brain, with blood vessels and all six major cell types ...