By tracking brain activity as people listened to a spoken story, researchers found that the brain builds meaning step by step ...

Increasing activity in a deep-brain region can boost the immune system’s response to vaccines —and people can be trained to ...

Over the past few years, studies have suggested that plastic particles from bottles, food packaging and waste have been ...

Researchers in Japan built a miniature human brain circuit using fused stem-cell–derived organoids, allowing them to watch the thalamus and cortex interact in real time. They found that the thalamus ...

Scientists have confirmed that spaceflight forces the brain to shift and stretch, a discovery that could change how we ...

Researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have characterized how cellular senescence—a biological process in ...

Findings from the Living Brain Project reveal how senescence processes involved in early brain development may also shape brain aging ...

The medical consequences of traumatic brain injuries are well-studied and affect millions of Americans every year. But one of ...

Stressful study sessions help us pass exams, but curiosity promotes long-term understanding and information retention. In A ...

"Understanding how spaceflight impacts the human brain is crucial as space exploration and tourism expand," a ...

Neuroscientists and philosophers have debated this thought experiment for decades as they have tried to understand how the ...