Researchers preparing to scan a human heart from a donor. (ESRF/Stef Candé) A pioneering project has revealed the human body ...

Human babies arrive with 100 extra bones for the same reason birth is the most dangerous event in mammalian life. Both facts ...

For years, the idea of building a working replica of the human brain has lived comfortably in the realm of science fiction. A ...

In mouse brain cells, and in follow-up work involving worms and human cortical neurons, the team found that many axons ...

New research challenges traditional views of how the brain makes decisions, suggesting that even its earliest regions play a ...

This may sound crazy, but scientists use blood to build soft neural interfaces in the brain, and then control them with light ...

The uncinate fasciculus is a major white matter pathway involved in memory, emotion, and language, but its microscopic ...

If you look at a Neanderthal skull and a Homo sapiens skull, they’re visibly different: Neanderthal skulls are lower and longer, whereas ours tend to be rounder. However, those differences probably ...

Differences in the physical shape and wiring of the brain can directly contribute to the development of attention and social ...

Brain size can matter across the broad sweep of primate evolution but among humans isn't the best way to estimate ...

New insight into decision-making pathways in the brain may impact the way engineers think about artificial intelligence, ...

White matter pathways allow distant parts of the brain to communicate, supporting memory, emotion, and language. One such pathway, the uncinate ...