The brain’s hemispheres are specialized for efficiency. Modern neuroscience shows lateralization enhances function without ...

Bipolar disorder can feel like a storm that erupts from nowhere, yet for decades the brain circuitry driving those brutal ...

When interpersonal challenges grow more intense and public, stress isn’t the only cost. Recent research reveals the hidden ...

The big thinkers at Aperture explain how meditation may rewire the brain and affect cognition.

Dancing uses overlooked senses and may tie to our deep evolutionary past. Knowing that can only make it more magical.

Something extraordinary has happened, even if we haven’t fully realized it yet: algorithms are now capable of solving intellectual tasks. These models are not replicas of human intelligence. Their ...

Published January 7 in the journal Nature, one paper tackled the age-old problem of nature’s construction with a bit of a twist: it suggests that living networks, like our brain, may use some of the ...

New UK research challenges some scientists' fundamental assumptions about how memory works, relying on the entire brain.

Cancer and Alzheimer's disease are two of the most feared diagnoses in medicine, but they rarely strike the same person.

A parasite that lives permanently in the brains of millions may not be as uniformly dormant as scientists once thought.

New research suggests intelligence arises not from a single brain region, but from how networks across the brain work together as an integrated system. Neuroscientists often describe the brain as a ...