Even if you think you learned everything that you needed to know way back in biology class, everyone has knowledge gaps. And ...

Some people believe we know everything about such thing as our body, since we study biology at school, read books, and watch popular videos on YouTube. Well, this is far from being true. The human ...

Have you ever given any extra thought to your stomach lining or the bones in your skull or pondered whether double uteruses ...

The human brain is a fascinating and complex organ that supports numerous sophisticated behaviors and abilities that are ...

It's a myth that we use only 10% of our brains. However, you're not alone in buying into this. A survey done about 10 years ago found that almost two-thirds of Americans shared this misconception.

Researchers mapped the brain connectivity of 960 individuals to uncover how fast and slow neural processes unite to support complex behavior.

New research shows gut bacteria can directly influence how the brain develops and functions. When scientists transferred ...

Last week Dr. C. Judson Herrick, University of Chicago neurologist, issued statements anent the brain. There are 9,200,000,000 cells in the human cortex. In the process of thought one of these cells ...

Harvard and Google Research have released a startlingly deep dive into the human brain, mapping thousands of cells and millions of synapses in a poppy seed-sized sample of brain tissue. The effort ...

Thanks to medical advances, more of us will live to be 100 and beyond, but our peak brain performance comes, at best, at about half that age. These startling statistics beg the question: Are we ...

Ty Roush is a breaking news reporter based in New York City. Microplastics have been found in brain tissue above the nose, suggesting a likely passageway for microscopic plastic shards and fibers to ...