Challenging a long-standing assumption regarding the adult brain, recent research has demonstrated that individuals can continue to develop new brain cells into old age. Researchers at Sweden’s ...

X’s Neo wants to be your housekeeper. First, it needs to be controlled by a human in your home. Cool with you?

A mind-shifting list of psychology books that reframe the way you look at your daily choices, emotions, and habits., Books, ...

Prof. Steven Pinker evaluates the phenomenon of terminal lucidity.

The idea scientists might be able to 'rewire' our memory is one that has long fascinated everyone from philosophers to movie ...

Creativity plays an important role in keeping the brain active. Now, a study shows that creative experience might even slow down brain ageing. Scientists found that creative activities, like dance ...

Funded by the Alzheimer's Society, a group of scientists are racing against time to track the changes in the brain that leads ...

Spaceflight rewires the human body. Muscles shrink, bones thin and fluids shift towards the brain – but these changes may ...

In a recently published, PNAS study, professor Andreas Neider and his team found that crows and rhesus macaques take mental shortcuts.

Cortex surgery, as illustrated by Tara's case, reveals the brain's remarkable capacity for recovery and the delicate balance between medical intervention and preserving human identity ...

Halloween is an opportunity to celebrate that which is creepy, spooky, scary and sometimes stranger than fiction. And for ...