About ten years ago, scientists began exploring an unconventional idea for studying the brain: using bioluminescent light to ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Governments on both sides of the Atlantic are placing big new bets on the future of brain science, just as much of the pharmaceutical industry retreats from the field. Brain ...

A selection of science-based books from the year that together shine new light on who we are and why we think and act as we do.

The human brain and mind remain among the most complex and powerful mysteries of nature. Here, we focus on the latest brain science, research, therapies and practical ideas, covering a range of ...

Anxiety is often described as a whole‑brain problem, but a series of mouse experiments suggests that, in some cases, a single ...

After nine years of painstaking work, an international team of researchers on Wednesday published a precise map of the vision centers of a mouse brain, revealing the exquisite structures and ...

Most of the time, you assume your brain is either “on” or “off,” awake or asleep. A new study shows something far more ...

In the world of medical research, few journeys feel as personal and urgent as that of Dr. Alexander W. Charney. His career began with curiosity, but patient care reshaped it into a mission. A recent ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Thanks to a mouse watching clips from “The Matrix,” scientists have created the largest functional map of a brain to date – a diagram of the wiring connecting 84,000 neurons as they ...

One evening in 1951 astronomer William Wilson Morgan was strolling home from Yerkes Observatory in Wisconsin when he looked up at the night sky and had a “flash inspiration ... a creative intuitional ...

If it feels like it’s harder than ever to have conversations about controversial subjects without explosive arguments, you’re not alone. “People are so trigger-happy and willing to engage in outrage ...