Scientists tested bags of pre-washed salad from supermarkets across Europe. In the United Kingdom alone, 16% of the samples ...

Neuropsychologists examine how brain function influences behavior, focusing on cognitive processes rather than labels to ...

Visual artist Maria Lux appears to have answered this call with her exhibition Heart and Mind, Blood and Nerves at the Kenton ...

Scientists have long tried to understand the human brain by comparing it to other primates. Researchers are still trying to understand what makes our brain different to our closest relatives. Our ...

Climate Our brains are filling with more and more microplastics, study shows A new study shows that microplastics have crossed the blood-brain barrier — and that their concentrations are rising.

Scientists have created the most detailed 3D map of a mouse brain ever produced, a milestone that could revolutionize ...

An international team of researchers and gamers, led by Princeton’s Mala Murthy and Sebastian Seung, mapped every neuron and every synaptic connection in an adult fruit fly's brain, building a ...

Study authors David Gate (left) and Lynn van Olst (right) examine a computer image of a treated human brain with Alzheimer’s disease. Northwestern University “Our study is highly novel because ...

Zero, which was invented late in history, is special among numbers. New studies are uncovering how the brain creates something out of nothing.

The social brain is connected to and in constant communication with a less evolved and older part of the human brain–the amygdala.