In this video, we explore an impressive brain coral by cutting an exciting cross-section, which is then transformed into an amazing ring.

A study of long-distance runners shows the brain’s remarkable ability to adapt—by burning its own fat. A marathon taxes more than just muscles—it pushes the brain to its metabolic limits.

May 28, 2025 — This study measured the growth rate of coral reefs in Honaunau Bay, Hawaii, using on-site data gathering and aerial imagery. Researchers found that the reefs are being eroded by ...

What does forgiveness look like in the brain? As a neuroscientist, I am always looking for the biological underpinnings of mental processes—not as an effort to distill mystery into molecules, but to ...

A pregnant woman in Georgia was declared brain-dead after a medical emergency and doctors have kept her on life support for three months so far to allow enough time for the baby to be born and ...

Learning new languages physically changes your brain and increases your cognitive abilities. But what really happens in the brain, and does speaking many languages really make you smarter?

A patient who types with his brain thanks to a Neuralink implant is using AI chatbots to speed things up. Last November, Bradford G. Smith got a brain implant from Elon Musk’s company Neuralink.

Many past psychology and neuroscience studies set out to better understand the neural underpinnings of reading and the intricate processes through which the human brain makes sense of written ...

They concluded that all of the patients had well-known conditions such as Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, cancer, traumatic brain injuries or post-concussion symptoms. “We really felt we had a ...

A fluorescence-microscopy method for tracing neuronal connections in the brain could make connectomics studies more widely accessible for neuroscientists. Read the paper: Light-microscopy-based ...

The Trump administration's 2026 fiscal budget request to Congress eliminates major federal funding for traumatic brain injury (TBI) research and education, potentially undercutting efforts to ...

But it's not just your body that bears the brunt of this hormonal change. Your brain may take a hit too, in the form of brain fog. Of course, there's renewed interest in hormone therapy and its ...