Time in space affects the body, but research has found that it can also quite literally affect the mind, prompting questions ...

Brain scans show a spot in the cerebellum attuned specifically to words, expanding on studies that point to the region's ...

Climber Alex Honnold is set to scale one of the world's tallest buildings without any ropes or safety nets.

Despite lacking a hippocampus entirely—and having diverged from the mammalian lineage roughly 400 million years ago—larval ...

Studies of brain injuries and electrical stimulation seemed to bear this out. Damaging the Broca’s area, for instance, interfered with speech, and stimulating specific tissues could lead to specific ...

Scientists have uncovered a previously unknown cluster of brain cells that may help explain differences in social behavior ...

If you have ever lifted a weight, you know the routine: challenge the muscle, give it rest, feed it and repeat. Over time, it ...

Sleep is a universal biological state that allows all animals, from mammals to amphibians, fish and even insects, to restore ...