Researchers found that social behavior begins in the brain before it becomes visible as movement. In zebrafish, a coordinated ...

Research links retiring early to cognitive decline, while continued work is associated with stronger cognition.

Ian Sample talks to Prof Maiken Nedergaard about her groundbreaking work on the brain’s waste-disposal system and how subsequent research is building a picture of sleep as anything but a quiet, inacti ...

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Australian researchers have trained lab-grown brain cells on a silicon computer chip to play the nineties shooter game "Doom" and say they are just scratching the surface of what the neurons could be ...

Ozempic was supposed to be a gut story. Then Allison Shapiro looked at the brain scans. An assistant professor at the ...

October saw several universities launch major initiatives in brain science and neurological research, often with the help of new private gifts to underwrite their efforts. Here are summaries of the ...

Every 20 seconds, a wave of fresh cerebrospinal fluid rolls into the sleeping brain. These slow, rhythmic blasts, described for the first time in the Nov. 1 Science, may help explain why sleep is so ...

A new bioluminescent tool allows neurons to glow on their own, letting scientists track brain activity without harmful lasers or fading signals. The advance makes it possible to watch individual brain ...

Scientists now understand the gut and brain are intricately linked via the gut-brain axis, a two-way communication system. This connection, influenced by the gut microbiome and the enteric nervous ...

For much of modern history, the brain was seen as largely fixed by the end of childhood. Intelligence, personality, and ability were believed to follow a mostly predetermined biological path.