Scientists have uncovered a surprising link between simple body movement and brain health: every time you tighten your ...

The UK’s Advanced Research and Innovation Agency (ARIA) was established in 2023 with the goal of pursuing “high-risk, ...

To get a better look at brains, Harvard researchers are making microscopes work more like human eyes. Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest sci-tech news updates. Until recently, the quest to ...

Brain health isn't determined only by genetics or what happens later in life. A growing body of research shows that a range ...

Researchers at Leipzig University have gained important insights into learning mechanisms in the brain of the fruit fly ...

Study authors Hunter Schweiger (left) and Ash Robbins. Imagine balancing a ruler vertically in the palm of your hand: you have to constantly pay attention to the angle of the ruler and make many small ...

Amanda Erickson is a news editor at STAT. For her new research on the brain’s plumbing system, neuroscientist Maiken Nedergaard had to hone many techniques. Among them — coaxing her lab mice into ...

Does your brain really reveal the metaphysical? Here’s what brain science can—and cannot—tell us about immortality.

When we look for something moving in the sky, our expectation would be very different if the object is a bird flying past or a baseball coming straight at us. UC Davis scientists in a new study looked ...

Discover how your brain "cleans" itself at night, and why researchers say sleeping a certain way could play a role.

While that message has been spread on social media, researchers are just beginning to understand how the devices affect the mind Amber X. Chen | AAAS Mass Media Fellow Research on how smartphone use ...