There is a tiny cyclops among your oldest ancestors, and humans share these remarkable ancestral roots with all other ...

A team of researchers from the University of Lund in Sweden and the University of Sussex in the United Kingdom has published a study that reconsiders the origin of vision in vertebrates. The work, led ...

The cerebral cortex, the brain's outermost region responsible for higher cognitive functions, depends on a highly ordered, ...

A protein reinforces the blood–brain barrier, which becomes leaky with age. Exercise prevents brain ageing and memory loss by strengthening the blood–brain barrier, the structure that keeps harmful ...

People with aphantasia have no mental imagery—and they’re offering brain scientists a window into consciousness ...

Researchers from Virginia Tech and Arizona State University recently revealed findings that tie two brain chemicals in bees to learning ability.

A Dartmouth study challenges the conventional view that the amygdala-the two-sided structure deep in the brain involved in emotion, learning, and decision making-is simply the brain's primitive "fear ...