This happened to me a few days ago. I am talking to a Gen Z (born between 1997 and 2012) on the phone about a trip we were planning. She seemed fragmented, texting her parents while speaking with me, ...

Pulitzer Prize-winning political cartoonist Michael Ramirez recently depicted three scientists huddled together in a medical lab for The Washington Post. The first looks up from a microscope and ...

The Museum of Illusions in Denver has turned the simple act of seeing into an extreme sport where nobody can be trusted, ...

MIT neuroscientists have uncovered a surprising secret hidden in the adult brain: millions of “silent synapses,” dormant ...

New research from King's College London and the University of Porto has mapped the histamine system in the brain. Histamine, ...

New multiplexed imaging technology using standard clinical MRI systems can simultaneously map more than 20 biomarkers in high resolution, providing a comprehensive view of the brain with a single scan ...

New research suggests pregnancy doesn’t impair the brain—it reshapes it, refining memory, attention, and emotional awareness ...

In a study published in Cell Reports, biomedical scientist Xuecai Ge at the University of California, Riverside and her team ...

For the past few years as a Duke undergraduate student, Nana Osaki has studied the brain, focusing on how language changes ...

Scientists have created a new way to map how brain cells connect by assigning each neuron a unique molecular “barcode.” Using ...

Startups have developed chips that allow people to control machines with their thoughts. Billionaires are betting these brain ...

Scientists have uncovered a striking brain difference linked to psychopathy: people with psychopathic traits were found to ...