Biologists have long puzzled over why organisms with similar numbers of protein-coding genes can differ so dramatically in ...

The human brain is a complex, multi-regional structure, and most brain organoids do not recapitulate its complexity and connectivity across different brain areas. For example, human induced ...

Earlier posts focused on the “easy problem” of consciousness—finding relationships between mental activity and the dynamic patterns measured with various brain imaging methods. This new post advances ...

Speech is a crowning achievement of human evolution, the skill that separates us from every other animal. So, it would stand ...

New research proposes the Brain-First Hypothesis: the evolution of the brain drove animal diversification during the Cambrian ...

The human brain and body are intricate systems that have been fine-tuned over millions of years to prioritize survival. One of the ways they achieve this is by favoring the status quo, or what is ...

A project at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA) has developed a novel imaging protocol to observe the brain's structure and dynamics. Published in Nature Methods, the findings open ...

Getting an education is important for a lot of reasons, but there might be one reason you haven’t heard - it could lower your risk of dementia later in life. Decades of research have supported this ...