The entire body of a sea urchin is what researchers are now calling an “all-body brain,” with neurons that function as a ...

A computer model developed by researchers from Japan and Seattle's Allen Institute could lead to new methods for studying ...

Scientists have found the first compelling evidence that cognitive training can boost levels of a brain chemical that ...

Columbia University researchers are the first to show that focused ultrasound—a noninvasive technique that uses sound waves ...

Researchers have created one of the most detailed virtual mouse cortex simulations ever achieved by combining massive ...

Ongoing disruptions in federal funding are causing many young brain scientists to reconsider their career choice, according ...

These moments often feel uncanny, like something more than a mere conversational coincidence. The “click” you experience with ...

I am watching a quiet revolution in brain medicine take shape: tiny injectable chips that slip into the bloodstream, steer ...

On a cutting surface inside a Scaife Hall laboratory at the University of Pittsburgh, Julia Kofler examines a brain, pointing ...

Allen Institute researcher Jerome Lecoq points to one of the diagrams that was used in a study focusing on how the brain interprets optical illusions. (Allen Institute Photo / Erik Dinnel) Our brains ...

For decades, we've been told that weight loss is a matter of willpower: eat less, move more. But modern science has proven ...

Welcome back to Birdbrained Science! Last time, we touched on the ‘bird’ aspect with migration and today, we’ll cover some brain stuff — let’s talk about pruning. However it happens, we know that once ...