This post is in partnership with Publisher’s Lunch. To get a free copy of their new collection Buzz Book 2014, click here. In 1559, the two surgeons Ambroise Paré and Andreas Vesalius discussed ...

Your brain ventricles are four fluid-filled chambers that produce cerebrospinal fluid. This fluid helps nourish your brain and protect it from injury. It would be easy to argue that your brain is the ...

The human brain, as the seat of mental life—from the most complicated intellectual processes down to routine and unconscious bodily control—is necessarily enormously complex. The largest part of the ...

The human brain is probably the most complex structure we know of. Yet we still use open-brain surgery, implanted whips, and ...

The first wiring diagram of every neuron in an adult brain and the 50 million connections between them has been produced for a fruit fly. The diagram of all 139,255 neurons in the adult fly brain is ...

A team of researchers in the Netherlands has proposed a new way of designing computer models of the brain—an approach that could also influence future artificial intelligence (AI) systems. In most ...