"I'm tired even though I haven't done anything." "I don't feel refreshed even after sleeping." "My mind is always busy." Do you have feelings like that? 🤔 Anxiety about the future. The brain has no ...

Where children live and what their household’s socioeconomic status is leaves a mark on their brains, a new study in Science finds. The results suggest that the fewer opportunities a child’s zip code ...

If you've ever noticed you feel calmer, more creative, or even happier while on vacation, there's a good reason for that. Experts say getting away can actually change the way our brains function. Most ...

Scientists are learning how the brain extracts discrete words from a continuous stream of sounds. UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #1: (Speaking Japanese). SUMMERS: Unless you speak Japanese, that probably sounded ...

A medical startup says it is using disembodied human brains in new drug development research targeting neurodegenerative diseases, a practice that may draw unsettling comparisons to the science ...

For most of human evolution, the story of the brain seemed to move in one direction: up. Over millions of years, our ancestors’ brains expanded from ape-sized organs into the relatively oversized ...

Just like vertebrates, cephalopods — such as octopuses and squid — have elaborate brains. Neuroscientists are flocking to them for insights into how intelligence evolved. Three hearts; blue blood; no ...

It was personal when Pat Schultz enrolled her German shepherd-poodle mix in the Dog Aging Project. Her husband was suffering from Alzheimer's at the time, and the project her dog was participating in ...

Put “Alien” on standby — because science may be inching a tiny step closer to real-life cryosleep. In a breakthrough that sounds ripped straight from a Ridley Scott flick, researchers in Germany have ...

A look inside the brains of extraordinarily sharp elderly people reveals clues about their unusual abilities. Deep in these exceptional brains were signs of what some scientists believe to be newborn ...

As we age, it’s not uncommon for the brain to change in ways that can negatively impact our cognition. SuperAgers are adults ages 80 and older who tend to retain their brain health and cognition. A ...