Inside every human brain lies a detailed map of the body, with different regions dedicated to different body parts – the hands, lips, feet and more. But what happens to this map when a body part is ...

We take our understanding of where we are for granted, until we lose it. When we get lost in nature or a new city, our eyes ...

Newly discovered fossils in Ethiopia show that Homo coexisted with Australopithecus 2.6 million years ago, rewriting the timeline of human evolution. Far from a straight line, early human history was ...

The idea that people are strictly left-brained or right-brained personalities is a popular myth. Science shows the brain ...

MRI-powered fluid flow mapping that reveals where the cancer is likely to invade next. The innovation is now being advanced ...

Vision happens when patterns of light entering the eye are converted into reliable patterns of brain activity. This ...

Countering the idea of large-scale rewiring, women whose hands were removed retained durable brain activity patterns linked to their missing fingers.

Twelve laboratories around the world have joined forces to map neuronal activity in a mouse’s brain as it makes decisions.