Recent studies shed light on how some ancient brains manage to endure over time. The availability of oxygen is pivotal in ...

Researchers kept human brain organoids developing for over five years, revealing prolonged maturation that mirrors human ...

This is a summary of a story published by the Duke School of Medicine. Duke researcher Debra Silver is convinced that to get meaningful answers about the brain, she needs to come at it in three ...

For most of human evolution, the story of the brain seemed to move in one direction. It got bigger. That long rise is still there in the fossil record. But a new analysis argues that the trend did not ...

They’re typically kept alive in cultures for a few weeks or months, but in a recent breakthrough, scientists at Harvard ...

Tal Sharf (right, senior author), Tjiste van der Molen (middle, postdoctoral researcher), and Greg Kaurala (left, staff researcher). Humans have long wondered when and how we begin to form thoughts.

When you're listening to a familiar language, you hear individual words, but what if the language is unfamiliar? UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #1: (Speaking Japanese). SUMMERS: Unless you speak Japanese, that ...