Groundbreaking research from NYU reveals non-neural human cells can remember chemical signals. This challenges the long-held ...

Humans have the largest brain size relative to body size of any species, as well as an impressive ability to accumulate knowledge over time. And yet, the human brain is remarkably similar to the ...

A new study published in the journal Science provides evidence that long-term exposure to fine particulate air pollution ...

We tend to think of memory as exclusively the brain’s domain, but new research suggests that this view may be far too narrow.

Ordinary human cells, not just neurons, respond more strongly to memory signals when they arrive in spaced bursts rather than ...

Researchers have developed brain-on-a-chip technology that uses human tissue to model how the brain’s protective barrier breaks down during inflammation and disease.

Consciousness is primarily experienced internally, but the phenomenon of out-of-body experiences (OBEs) challenges this assumption. Although scientists have developed biological-based explanations for ...

A new study concludes that the speed at which the human brain evolved may help explain why our species experiences autism.

In lieu of animal experiments, researchers from the University of Rochester are using state-of-the-art microchips with human ...

New research on the size relationship between brains and wisdom teeth suggests that bigger brains aren’t necessarily the ...