Vedantam, a veteran science reporter, joins WHYY’s Jennifer Lynn to explore how unseen mental forces shape our choices, and why the show continues to resonate with listeners.

Using single-cell RNA sequencing and genetic screening, the researchers identified key surface proteins that mediate ...

As information zings from cell to cell inside the brain, bursts of electricity spur its transmission. At Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL), scientists have turned their attention to the tiny pores ...

Studying the brain in ways that have never been done before. Women across all industries need more female mentors and role ...

Martin Kampmann’s work, supported by the National Institutes of Science (NIH), maps cellular “decision points” that determine ...

Renaud Joannes-Boyau receives funding from the Australian Research Council. Manish Arora receives funding from US National Institutes of Health. He is the founder of Linus Biotechnology, a start-up ...

Ancient bones, artifacts and texts offer numerous insights into the past, as does the chewing gum that Neolithic people chewed on and spat out long ago. Analysis of lumps of birch bark tar from ...

Jennifer Hammel (left) and Monet Roberts conduct research in senior author Jennifer Munson's Lab at the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC. The team studies how chemotherapy drugs affect ...

The connectome is the complete map of neural connections in the brain, a project so complex that scientists compare it to decoding the universe itself. Full list of Democrats who voted against paying ...

David Mendosa called it the wall of fat. In 1994, a doctor diagnosed him with type 2 diabetes, and over the next decade, he felt helpless as his weight crept upward until he tipped the scales at 312 ...

I really enjoyed Horizon: Secrets of the brain on BBC iPlayer. Presented by physicist Jim Al-Khalili (pictured), the two-part documentary is about the brain’s origin and the forces that shaped this ...

Pound-for-pound, the human brain is the body’s most metabolically costly organ, consuming 20% of our energy and accounting for an outsize portion of our anatomy compared with most other animals.