New research suggests that modern conditions may trace back to Neanderthal skull traits we share with our extinct cousins.

Last week, we posed a series of questions designed to make us think about a unique capacity common among human beings but nonexistent in the rest of the animal kingdom. That excellent characteristic ...

Across the United States, tens of thousands of overdose survivors are brought back to life by naloxone. But what comes back ...

Researchers from Sweden have discovered that the human brain continues to grow new cells in the memory region—called the hippocampus—even into old age. Using advanced tools to examine brain samples ...

A study by Dr. Martin Ebert and Dr. Martina Kölbl-Ebert examined the remains of some 4,200 Tharsis fossil specimens. They ...

Paleoneurobiologist Emiliano Bruner explores the superpower of projecting images and words that has allowed us to make a ...

Brain–computer interfaces being trialled in China offer some advantages over Neuralink and other leading US devices.

New neurons in your brain? A landmark study from Karolinska Institutet finds adults keep forming brain cells into the old age ...

Scientists say they have very strong evidence that the adult human brain is capable of making new neurons, a point of ongoing ...

After years of debate, scientists provided new evidence for the lifelong birth of human brain cells, which may inform future ...

Despite near-consensus that memory has a physical basis, neuroscientists are split on whether we might someday be able to ...