Many of us like to think that we’re fairly smart. But it can be a very humbling experience when you’re in the presence of ...

The actor who played the multi-faceted villain Vecna in Netflix's recently concluded mega-hit talks to The Hollywood Reporter ...

If you’re watching the person you love struggle to survive an illness, things aren’t going to be the same — for better or for ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Scientists showed that it’s possible to reproduce an entire cerebral cortex inside one of the world’s fastest computers. The model represents the ...

Every clonal raider ant lives a nearly identical life. Each new generation of these blind, queenless ants is born at the same time, eats the same things, lives in the same environment, and—as an ...

Lacey W. Heinsberg receives funding from the National Institutes of Health. Amery Treble-Barna receives funding from the National Institutes of Health. A newly discovered biological signal in the ...

Neural tissue engineering aims to mimic the brain's complex environment, the extracellular matrix, which supports nerve cell growth, development, and proper connectivity. This environment is carefully ...

What happens inside a child’s brain after thousands of hours in front of screens? A study of nearly 10,000 American kids offers some answers. Researchers tracking children from ages 9-10 through 11-12 ...

In summer 2024, Katie and Bo McDougall and their daughter, Nora, went to the beach. It was a simple family getaway, but for the McDougalls, it was a watershed moment—Nora was born in 2020 with a rare ...

Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine have discovered a natural mechanism that clears existing amyloid plaques in the brains of mouse models of Alzheimer’s disease and preserves cognitive function ...