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.

Researchers studying the human brain shared a lot of fascinating research this year, like how to keep brains young and how to ...

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

It's one of nature's greatest ironies: the human brain lacks the ability to grasp its own complexity. Indeed, the brain is complicated. The three-pound organ housed in our heads consists of roughly 86 ...

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 ...