It may seem remarkable, but significant evidence shows that humans could learn this sound-based “superpower” with some practice.

A major study from scientists in China is shifting how we think about aging. The long-held belief that aging is a one-way ...

The processes via which cells in the brain, particularly its outermost layer (i.e., the cerebral cortex), gradually become specialized and take on specific roles have been the focus of many past ...

Many grooves and dimples on the surface of the brain are unique to humans, but they're often dismissed as an uninteresting ...

Study identifies brain abnormalities common to insomnia, anxiety, and depression, including smaller thalamus, weaker connectivity, and reduced cortex area.

The smallest grooves on the brain's surface, unique to humans, have largely been ignored by anatomists, but recent studies show that they're related to cognitive performance, including face ...

Projection neurons are glutamatergic neurons characterized by a typical pyramidal morphology, and function to transmit information both between different regions of the cortex and to other regions ...

Neuroscientist Lucy L. Brown, Ph. D., and the late biological anthropologist Helen Fisher, Ph.D., are the writing team behind ...

It was June of 1972 (I was 14) and Tropical Storm Agnes had just dropped historic amounts of rain in my boyhood home of Lancaster, Pa. My mom was heartsick; family memories and heirlooms were ...