Scientists have uncovered a key brain signal that helps us break old habits and adapt when circumstances suddenly change. By ...

One of the world's leading brain research centers is shifting away from fruit flies and toward a tiny, transparent fish. The ...

Oxford University Press has chosen "brain rot" as its word of the year. The word is defined as "supposed deterioration of a person’s mental or intellectual state, especially viewed as a result of ...

Investigate your digital habits using real research methods and discover how distractions change your focus, memory, and ...

You open Instagram for a quick break, and you are trapped. Minutes later, you are still scrolling. Then 30 minutes pass, an ...

Scientists achieved “a milestone” by charting the activity and structure of 200,000 cells in a mouse brain and their 523 million connections. A neuron extends an axon to make contact with other ...

Lab-grown “reductionist replicas” of the human brain are helping scientists understand fetal development and cognitive disorders, including autism. But ethical questions loom. Brain organoids, which ...