Fear has a scent. Here’s how this invisible chemical signal has shaped human perceptions, emotions and survival instincts.

There’s a lot to love about brains. They are arguably the most complex organ in the entire human body. 86 billion neurons send electrical and chemical signals back and forth within your brain to ...

The brain’s hemispheres are specialized for efficiency. Modern neuroscience shows lateralization enhances function without ...

1. Childhood, from birth to age 9, during which time the brain is continually pruning away haphazardly created synaptic connections forged as early learning, unlearning and relearning chaotically ...

For the first time, clumps of human cells called organoids were fully integrated with the brains of rats—and influenced their behavior.

A newly identified lymphatic drainage pathway along the middle meningeal artery reveals how the human brain clears waste. How does the brain clear away waste? This task is handled by the brain’s ...

Cancer and Alzheimer's disease are two of the most feared diagnoses in medicine, but they rarely strike the same person.

Neuroscientists and philosophers have debated this thought experiment for decades as they have tried to understand how the ...

Some people say that today there are almost no "blank spots" left on our planet - that is, places completely unexplored by humans. And therefore, supposedly, life today has become more boring than, ...

A new study suggests that the impact of obesity on brain health depends not just on how much fat the body carries, but where it is stored ...