The human brain is the most energy-intensive organ in the body, consuming about 20% of our total energy while representing a larger proportion of body mass than in most other animals. One leading ...

In his new BBC show, Jim Al-Khalili journeys through hundreds of millions of years of brain evolution. Live Science spoke to ...

Meet the Kraken, a massive disorientation device used to train astronauts for long space missions. We introduce viewers to the Kraken, a massive disorientation device housed on Wright Patterson ...

Neuroscience has long worshiped the neocortex—the brain’s hub for sophisticated thought. But consciousness may originate ...

A groundbreaking project will map the brain's hidden sixth sense. Scientists are creating an atlas of interoceptive neurons, ...

Neuroscientists from around the world have worked in parallel to map, for the first time, the entire brain activity of mice while they were making decisions. This achievement involved using electrodes ...

Consciousness is primarily experienced internally, but the phenomenon of out-of-body experiences (OBEs) challenges this assumption. Although scientists have developed biological-based explanations for ...

Recently, a neurotech company called Paradromics made headlines by successfully implanting its brain-computer interface (BCI) in a human for the first time. The procedure happened at the University of ...

When it comes to pregnancy and the postpartum period, there are so many things that happen in your body – and mind, too. One of which has been dubbed 'baby brain', which is basically shorthand for ...