The first and most obvious is walking and taking the stairs. “The legs carry the biggest muscle groups of our body, those are calorie burners so the stronger your legs are the more calories you’re ...

At school in the early aughts, Harry Trevaldwyn would pen short stories with the aim to disturb. “I wanted my teachers to ...

Researchers have systematically detailed, step by step, how cognitive maps form in the brain's hippocampus -- a region responsible for learning and memory.

Researchers have discovered a new type of neuron that plays a fundamental role in recognition memory -- how the brain registers the difference between new and familiar objects and forms long-term ...

Take a look around your home and you'll find yourself surrounded by familiar comforts—photos of family and friends on the ...

Your brain constantly juggles sensory information to make split-second decisions, but how? A new latent circuit model ...

RIGHT, RIGHT. SO IT’S A GOOD BALANCE BETWEEN BEING FEARFUL ABOUT YOUR HEART HEALTH AND BEING CAVALIER ABOUT YOUR HEART HEALTH. LIKE WHEN WE ARE YOUNG IN OUR 30S, WE THINK THAT NOTHING WILL.

Harvard researchers have mapped and catalogued more than 70,000 synaptic connections from about 2,000 rat neurons, using a silicon chip capable of recording small yet telltale synaptic signals from a ...

What makes the human brain unique? A Yale study unlocks new insights into genetic changes that shaped our evolution.

Meanwhile, slasher “Heart Eyes” and Ke Huy Quan actioner “Love Hurts” are landing in second and third, respectively, turning in more tepid opening weekends. Universal’s “Dog Man” is ...

With projections indicating that dementia cases will triple by 2050, the World Health Organization (WHO) has issued comprehensive guidelines emphasising the link between heart health and brain health.

Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease is an extremely rare and fatal brain-wasting disease that's like a human version of "mad cow." ...