Rather than a steady decline, the brain’s network stability followed a sigmoid, or S-shaped curve. It was stable until around ...

A “Goldilocks” measure of green space might help stave off dementia, but an excess could lead to cognitive decline ...

Researchers at the Institute of Automation of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have developed a compact, battery-powered brain ...

Researchers from Jülich have developed a robust new memristor that mimics brain-like learning and memory. Its novel switching ...

A research team led by Dr. SHIN Hee-sup at the Institute for Basic Science (IBS) has uncovered a fundamental brain circuit ...

Some say you’re only as old as you feel. Others say you’re as young as you think. But how old is your brain really?

This diagram compares the classic view of a bird brain as defined by German naturalist Ludwig Edinger, who did the first studies of bird brain anatomy in the 19th century, to the current view of ...

Humanity has been hunting for sex-based differences in the brain since at least the time of the ancient Greeks, and it has ...

When the human brain is starved of energy, it may start to 'eat' its own fatty tissue for fuel, according to a pilot study on ...

Some artists became scientific experts in their own right, thanks to hours of patient study. Sarah Bowdich (1791-1856) was an author, illustrator and traveller, and became a scientific explorer on an ...