Neuroscience has long worshiped the neocortex—the brain’s hub for sophisticated thought. But consciousness may originate ...

X’s Neo wants to be your housekeeper. First, it needs to be controlled by a human in your home. Cool with you?

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Inside your body, an intricate communication network constantly monitors breathing, heart rate, digestion, and immune ...

The former civil servant became determined to donate his body to medical science while volunteering with children with cancer. “These kids have their entire futures ahead of them, yet life dealt them ...

Humans can maintain only so many friendships effectively. Relationships significantly influence mental and physical health. Friendships can shift based on interactions and time spent together. You may ...

For the first time, scientists have detailed how a deadly brain cancer has a unique path of progression, aggressively eating away at the skull itself – and how drugs to impede this end up making it ...

We’ve all been told that many short study sessions beat one long, all-night “cramming” marathon. That basic idea – called the signal spacing effect – shows up again and again in memory research.

Earlier this year, John Hopkins University scientists revealed that they had created something astonishing: a miniature whole human brain. Specifically, it was a type of organoid, a small mass of ...

When you read about something or see it on TV, the (lack of) context might leave you guessing — or even worse, misinterpreting — the details. Luckily, r/HumanForScale solves that problem. Every ...

Share on Pinterest Human brain cell evolution may be linked to autism, neurodiversity, according to a new study. Image credit: Lauren Lee/Stocksy A new study concludes that the speed at which the ...