About ten years ago, scientists began exploring an unconventional idea for studying the brain: using bioluminescent light to ...

The human brain has 86 billion neurons connected by roughly 100 trillion synapses, making it one of the most complex objects ...

Researchers at the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience have become the first to fully characterize cell activity from a little relay station in the center of the human brain. This aids our ...

Human navigation turns out to be less like following a static map and more like tuning a control knob inside the brain. New ...

A new bioluminescent tool allows neurons to glow on their own, letting scientists track brain activity without harmful lasers ...

Shifting focus on a visual scene without moving our eyes — think driving, or reading a room for the reaction to your joke — is a behavior known as covert ...

Tori Spelling was forced to cancel an appearance at a '90s-themed party in Las Vegas alongside Brian Austin Green due to an ...

Researchers have developed a method for mapping the orientation and organization of tissue fibers, furthering our ...

Scientists are building experimental computers from living human brain cells and testing how they learn and adapt.

Scientists at Brown University have developed CaBLAM, a bioluminescent tool that allows long-term, high-resolution imaging of living brain cells without external light.

As scientists race to develop simple blood tests that could one day act as an early warning system for Alzheimer’s disease by sounding the alarm before memory problems appear, new research shows ...

Research shows that certain food may affect mood and mental health. Eating these foods may make you feel happier.