An eight-year Finnish study following more than 260 children into adolescence found that kids who racked up more screen time actually showed better cognitive processing as teenagers, challenging ...

What if a tiny sample of your skin could be turned into human brain tissue? Well, scientists have actually been doing versions of this for years. Researchers can take adult human cells and reprogram ...

Lab-grown “mini brains,” called brain organoids, kind of look like navy beans—and have very little in common with a functional human brain. These tiny clumps of neural tissue are grown from stem cells ...

Octopuses are clever enough to unscrew jars from the inside and throw sand at their annoying neighbors. But only a fraction of their smarts come from their doughnut-shaped brains. Over two-thirds of ...

I’m going to let you in on a secret. Every cell in your body has the potential to get smarter. I don’t mean this metaphorically, or in a “body keeps the score” kind of way. I mean that if lab-coated ...

You're currently following this author! Want to unfollow? Unsubscribe via the link in your email. Brain injuries are among the military's most pressing health problems, making advancements in ...

The brain is one of the first organs to begin decomposing after death. Yet archaeologists have discovered more than 4,400 preserved human brains around the world, some of which have remained intact ...