For more than a century, maps of the brain have been based on how brain tissue looks under the microscope.

You grab your phone and in that first swipe, you see someone traveling the world. Why aren’t you on vacation? Swipe again, and someone is living off the grid. Wow, shouldn’t you get rid of your laptop ...

Researchers have created a protein that can detect the faint chemical signals neurons receive from other brain cells. By tracking glutamate in real time, scientists can finally see how neurons process ...

The brain goes through five distinct stages between birth and death, a new study shows. Scientists identified the average ages—9, 32, 66 and 83—when the pattern of connections inside our brains shift.

The human brain has 86 billion neurons connected by roughly 100 trillion synapses, making it one of the most complex objects in the known universe. Each year neuroscientists make fascinating, ...

University of Bristol provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation UK. The Grinch is one of the holiday season’s most familiar icons. The grumpy, green, fur-covered misanthrope who ...

The brain Anatomy often mirrors personality. Judging by behavior, the Grinch's frontal lobes, particularly his prefrontal cortex, would be on the small side—explaining his flat and small forehead.

What if picking up a paintbrush, dancing to music, or learning a new game could help your brain stay biologically younger? A new study in Nature Communications suggests exactly that. Creative ...

Is language core to thought, or a separate process? For 15 years, the neuroscientist Ev Fedorenko has gathered evidence of a language network in the human brain — and has found some similarities to ...

Referred to as a “stealth storm,” a recent coronal mass ejection went undetected until it hit Earth. Stealth coronal mass ejections are more common after the Sun transitions from the solar maximum to ...

Senior Research Fellow, The Perron Institute for Neurological and Translational Science, and Research Fellow, Faculty of Health Sciences, Curtin University A recent episode of the The Kardashians ...

A brain scan revealed Kim Kardashian had "low activity" after the reality TV star learned she had a small brain aneurysm. The celebrity psychologist, who specializes in brain disorders, said that low ...