We often stop noticing things we’ve become too accustomed to, as a side effect of our brains protecting us from sensory ...

Researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz have trained lab-grown brain organoids to solve a goal-directed task, ...

A Harvard lecturer explains how you can use neuroscience backed tips to communicate your ideas so they are persuasive and unforgettable.

A few blobs of lab-grown brain tissue have demonstrated a striking proof of concept: living neural circuits can be nudged toward solving a classic control problem through carefully structured feedback ...

How we learn to predict an outcome isn’t determined by how many times a cue and reward happen together. Instead, how much ...

As we are a profoundly social species, communicating with one another comes naturally to us. We do it all the time, and we take most of it for granted. Yet, science is only beginning to reveal just ...

New research into the health effects of spaceflight has shown astronauts' brains change position and shape over time. Following spaceflight, the brain shifts "upward and backward within the skull", ...

Spaceflight takes a physical toll on astronauts, causing muscles to atrophy, bones to thin and bodily fluids to shift. According to a new study published in the journal PNAS, we can now add another ...

Astronauts’ brains can change shape and shift positions during stays in space, according to a new study with implications for NASA’s goals to conduct long-duration missions to the moon and Mars. The ...

Yale School of Medicine (YSM) scientists have discovered a molecular difference in the brains of autistic people compared to their neurotypical counterparts. Autism is a neurodevelopmental condition ...

Researchers used miniature human brains grown in the lab to uncover why certain genetic mutations lead to abnormally small brains. Changes in actin disrupted the orientation of early brain cell ...

As we age, the human brain rewires itself. The process happens in distinct phases, or “epochs,” according to new research, as the structure of our neural networks changes and our brains reconfigure ...