A massive international brain study has revealed that memory decline with age isn’t driven by a single brain region or gene, but by widespread structural changes across the brain that build up over ...

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Scientists wanted to know why the chatter of Alston’s singing mice sounds so much like human conversation. What they found ...

A new study in Proceedings of the Royal Society B reveals the surprising neurological landscape of fish brains. Harvard ...

For decades, scientists have sought to explain the so-called "Cambrian Explosion," a pivotal period over 500 million years ...

Scientists gave people a “heroic” dose of psilocybin and then looked at their brain. Here’s what happened ...

A study using the Very Large Array radio telescope may have discovered a magnetic field on exoplanet YZ Ceti b. Magnetic ...

Just like vertebrates, cephalopods—such as octopuses and squid—have elaborate brains. Neuroscientists are flocking to them ...

Just over 40 years ago, in his novel Contact, astronomer Carl Sagan imagined what it would be like to detect radio signals beamed from other intelligent lifeforms in the galaxy. In the story, these ...

Elon Musk's neuroscience startup Neuralink has released footage that it says shows a macaque monkey playing video games using ...

Women who drink as little as a glass of wine daily and two at weekends face a "significantly higher" risk of developing heart ...

More than half of people starting cancer treatment such as chemotherapy in England had a history of obesity, even though only ...