A vibrant tapestry of sunny yellow daffodils and deep purple hyacinths illustrates the colorful payoff of autumn planting. These varieties are highly resistant to local deer and rabbits, making them a ...

Do women's brains really change when they become mothers? Yes, says neuroscientist Susana Carmona. But the changes actually start before they give birth. Carmona has been studying women's brains for ...

As anyone reading this probably knows, the Bad Brains were one of the most important punk-rock bands of all time, Washington D.C.-bred pioneers of the sound that became hardcore. While they were a ...

Late last week, we started seeing headlines about how new research was suggesting we might have two brains instead of the one that seems to show up on MRI scans. As is so often the case, these rumors ...

Using their new knowledge, the researchers became the first to successfully coax human stem cells into becoming hindbrain motor nerve cells. Tryfonov / Adobe Stock The brain is an incredible organ, ...

The discovery could help scientists advance research into conditions including Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also called Lou Gehrig’s disease, and spinal muscular atrophy Getty Scientists at ...

For centuries, scientists have thought of the brain as a single, unified organ. But new research led by Stanford Medicine reveals that what we call the brain is two distinct organs that evolved ...

Researchers have developed a new way to install millions of human brain cells into mice, as a way of creating better scientific models for studying neurodegenerative disease. Using genetic tools, the ...

The animals may help reveal the causes of brain disease in people and point the way to treatments. But researchers already are calling for new ethical guidelines. The animals may help reveal the ...

They are moving too fast for the normal mind to keep up, but elite drivers have more densely packed brain cells where it counts and use their minds more efficiently. By Erik Vance Imagine two athletes ...

Although the soft tissue of the human brain is particularly vulnerable to decay after death, archaeologists regularly find preserved brains amid remains where all other soft tissues have deteriorated.