(CN) — For decades, scientists thought the entire brain started from the same type of progenitor cell. But in findings published Friday in Nature Neuroscience, researchers say the brain’s front and ...

Researchers hope to shed light on conditions such as schizophrenia, epilepsy, cerebral palsy, intellectual disability and rare forms of dementia Researchers have created mice with half-human brains in ...

Being both smart and loving is a rare and special gift that not everyone will recognize. But people with big hearts and even bigger brains usually have habits that make them irresistible when people ...

People who speak several languages may have brains that age more slowly, with four-language speakers showing brains that appeared about 13 years younger than those of monolinguals. Starting earlier ...

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A new analysis supports the previously overlooked "brain lag" hypothesis—the idea that, in some primate lineages, the evolution of larger body size preceded the evolution of larger brain size—while ...

Healthy brains may be built through a process of controlled damage and rapid repair. The most dangerous type of DNA damage is a regular feature of healthy early brain development, experiments in mice ...

If you ever dreamed of having your brain hooked up to a collection of tubes, pumps, and laboratory gadgets within hours of your death, you’re in luck. According to research published in Science, a ...

Rob Williams knows how to pitch Jeff Bezos: You write a press release as if your product has already been built. Bezos reads it and gives a thumbs up or down. Williams went through this process a lot ...

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We appear to have more in common with our Neanderthal cousins than outward appearances would suggest. New research published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences suggests ...