"I'm not aware of any measure you can make of the human brain where the male and female distributions don't overlap," ...

Consciousness is central to human experience, shaping everything we perceive and understand. Yet, its nature remains one of ...

A rare sequence of heating and cooling triggered the chain of chemical reactions that turn organic material into glass.

Having a better midlife diet associated with better functional connectivity between the hippocampus and both the occipital ...

The seemingly trivial distinction between mind and brain has profound implications for modern science. The “hard problem of ...

They found that the images revealed distinctive features typical of the human central nervous system, including evidence for neurons and white matter axons. Brain tissue does sometimes preserve ...

Blood tests showed elevated eosinophils, which can be a sign of a parasitic infection, among other things. They searched for ...

Also, for glass to form naturally, some organic matter must liquefy and then cool ... Chemical analysis revealed a composition of human brain triglycerides and human hair fat, while a scanning ...

The mind is so deeply attached to the self that it can be unsettling to consider how much thinking we don’t do ourselves.

In research inspired by the principles of quantum mechanics, researchers from Pompeu Fabra University (UPF) and the ...

MIT research finds the brain’s language-processing network also responds to artificial languages such as Esperanto and languages made for TV, such as Klingon on “Star Trek” and High Valyrian and ...

Compared to mouse brains, marmoset and human brains have a higher ratio of white matter (the "wires" of the brain) to gray matter (neuronal cell bodies). The marmoset model creates multiple ...