Lifelong plasticity is a core principle of neuroscience, yet it operates within real limits shaped by effort, stress and ...

Time in space affects the body, but research has found that it can also quite literally affect the mind, prompting questions ...

Researchers outline a roadmap for applying transcranial focused ultrasound, a noninvasive technique for stimulating the brain ...

Brain scans show a spot in the cerebellum attuned specifically to words, expanding on studies that point to the region's ...

Despite lacking a hippocampus entirely—and having diverged from the mammalian lineage roughly 400 million years ago—larval ...

Climber Alex Honnold is set to scale one of the world's tallest buildings without any ropes or safety nets.

Sleep is a universal biological state that allows all animals, from mammals to amphibians, fish and even insects, to restore ...

Scientists have uncovered a previously unknown cluster of brain cells that may help explain differences in social behavior ...