New research on microplastics in brains reminds us that while scientists compile safety data, our leaders should still act ...

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...