Your brain is 99.5% brain tissue — but the rest? Plastic. That’s the unsettling takeaway from a new study co-lead by Matthew ...

A new study has found startling levels of microplastics in the human brain, raising more concerns over plastic pollution.

Would you give up your sense of smell to keep your hair? What about your phone? A 2022 US study compared smell to other ...

New research reveals how the brain rapidly adapts to sensory changes using a feedback loop between the olfactory cortex and the olfactory bulb.

CSHL Professor Florin Albeanu and his team trained mice to associate a reward with a different sound or odor—but only one of these stimuli at a time. They found that a feedback loop between the ...

Researchers have discovered microplastics in human brain samples, raising the question as to how they are ingested and their impact on cognitive function.

Biologist Prof. Dr. Tobias Ackels (40) from the University of Bonn will be awarded the Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter ...

Kaboom! The first time most of us hear the sound of an explosion is in the movies. Encountering the sound in the real ...

And still another difference is that olfaction is the only sense that involves the brain directly reaching out for information from the world: the olfactory bulb in the nose is literally composed ...