In their study published in Nature Communications, researchers identified an unusual type of brain cell they named “ovoid ...

Our brains build maps of the environment that help us understand the world around us, allowing us to think, recall, and plan. These maps not only help us to, say, find our room on the correct floor of ...

In “Cerebral Entanglements,” Allan J. Hamilton argues that new imaging technologies give us unprecedented access — with ...

Take a look around your home and you'll find yourself surrounded by familiar comforts—photos of family and friends on the ...

Scientists have discovered that neural stem cells (NSCs) receive constant feedback from their daughter cells, influencing whether they remain dormant or activate to form new neurons and glia.

Human brains today contain 50% more plastic than in 2016, a new study found. Brain of people diagnosed with dementia had the ...

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Key cells in the brain, neurons, form networks by exchanging signals, enabling the brain to learn and adapt at incredible speed.

RFK Jr. is set to appear for the first of two confirmation hearings today on his path to becoming the new Health and Human Services Secretary. Ahead of this, his cousin Caroline sent a scathing letter ...

Some of these cells probably got trapped in the tight curves of tiny blood vessels in an area of the brain called the cortex,” according ... ‘Discovery and quantification of plastic particle pollution ...

Research links human outer ears to cartilage in fish gills. Gene-editing experiments confirm evolutionary connection. Findings date back to marine invertebrates 400 million years ago. New research has ...