Pea-size clusters of human cells called brain organoids inspire both hope and fear. Experts are debating how scientists can responsibly use these bits of gray matter.

Modern humans are evolutionary survivors, thriving generation after generation while our ancient relatives died out. Now, new research into our brain chemistry suggests that an enzyme unique to Homo ...

A microscopic flaw in the brain’s cellular scaffolding can shape brain size for life.

Most of the time, you assume your brain is either “on” or “off,” awake or asleep. A new study shows something far more ...

Vienna: In 2022, Jake Watson sent an unusual email to a neurosurgeon in Vienna: “Can we have some pieces of brain from the operating theatre?” Since then, Karl Rössler, a neurosurgeon at the Medical ...

Neuroscientists at the University of Cambridge have identified five "major epochs" of brain structure over the course of a human life, as our brains rewire to support different ways of thinking while ...

Doctors gave the 31-year-old just five years to live and he’s now in a clinical trial to try and prolong his life Tom and his wife Vicky are now planning to start IVF in hopes of him experiencing ...

In his book "One Hand Clapping," Nikolay Kukushkin explores explanations for how consciousness evolved, and ultimately, what makes us human. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

Hosted by Molly Bloom, Marc Sanchez, and Sanden Totten, the production adapts the award-winning program into an onstage exploration of how the human brain functions, incorporating segments, ...

"Consciousness," although challenging to define, can be thought of as a first-person awareness of one's surroundings and oneself. You sense the world through your eyes, nose, ears and hands, and track ...

“My prognosis is five years, which, when you’re 31, fit and healthy and newly married, isn’t what you expect to hear,” said Tom Chapman Brain Tumour Research8 Tom Chapman suffered a seizure two weeks ...