Two scientists swelled a sample of brain tissue to reveal its tangled wiring, and this incredible photograph is the result.

University of Tübingen researchers have shown that crows, when confronted with a visual choice, make a decision twice as fast ...

A new study traced the forebrain and hindbrain to separate evolutionary lineages, then researchers used that discovery to ...

The Nikon Small World Competition has announced its photography winners for its 52nd annual contest. This comes weeks after ...

A tiny region deep within the brain has surprised scientists by revealing a remarkably sophisticated communication system.

(Eugene Mymrin/Moment RF/Getty Images) It's well known that alcohol has profound consequences on the way the brain works, and ...

An ancient viral insertion silences LINC00662 in chimpanzee cells, while the gene is active during early human brain ...

A new study in Nature by researchers at Baylor College of Medicine answers a long-standing question about astrocytes, ...

Conscious perception may depend not just on the patterns of activity in certain neurons, but the timing of when those ...

Hardship is thought to wear down a new mother’s drive to care for her young, partly by lowering activity in brain cells ...

A new study led by researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, reveals how psilocybin, the psychoactive compound ...

Credit: Allen Institute Scientists exploring the brain’s “blue place” discovered the longest neuron ever measured in a mouse ...