In 2021, a dish of living human brain cells figured out how to play the 1970s arcade game Pong. It took just five minutes for the collection of neurons, called DishBrain, to learn how to move the ...

We are living in an era of “discoveries that feel at once wondrous, improbable, and surreal,” writes Mary Roach in her new book.

This week, researchers identified a key driver of pancreatic cancer spread. Oral bacteria were linked to Parkinson's disease ...

The significant push back in the date of origin of modern-day humans is notable. It indicates that, in the last 800,000 years, most large-brained humans can be traced to just five major branches: ...

Retirement isn’t a slowdown—it’s a brain upgrade powered by ten tiny, joyful habits you’ll actually look forward to doing ...

In his new BBC show, Jim Al-Khalili journeys through hundreds of millions of years of brain evolution. Live Science spoke to ...

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Spinning stories out of nothing is a deeply human impulse. As a neurologist, I see my patients do it all the time.

UCLA scientists, medical professors and graduate students are accustomed to presenting their research — into cancer, stroke, brain injury, nerve regeneration — at conferences of their peers with the ...

New research reveals that when microplastics enter the body, they may bind to proteins, disrupting how brain cells function and acting as neurotoxicants. The researchers treated mouse serum with ...

It suggests that manual dexterity and brain evolution are connected across the entire primate lineage, from lemurs to humans. Notably, the correlation held even when human data were excluded, ...