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.

An often-ignored type of cell in the brain plays a dynamic and surprisingly complex role in our ability to process information, according to new research. An often-ignored type of cell in the ...

The venous system maintains the health of our brains by removing deoxygenated blood and other waste products, but its complexity and variability have made scientific study difficult. Now, a UC ...

In Georgia, Adriana Smith, a brain-dead pregnant woman, is being kept on life support to allow her fetus to reach viability due to the state's Heartbeat Bill. Her mother expresses concerns about ...

Instead, it is well known that handedness is caused by the brain (Schmitz et al., 2019). Handedness represents one form of functional hemispheric asymmetries—e.g., left-right differences in the ...

Apple AAPL0.10%increase; green up pointing triangle is embracing the world of brain computer interfaces, unveiling a new technology that one day could revolutionize how humans interact with their ...

Blame cell death and fungi for brain decay, not TikTok. TikTok won't really make your brain rot. That doesn't happen until after death. While most brains rot quickly, researchers have found a ...

Until now, scientists have traditionally thought the brain doesn't play a role in type 2 diabetes, according to Schwartz. The paper challenges this and is a "departure from the conventional wisdom ...

In this step-by-step primer, you’ll uncover how to design and integrate custom stencils into Excel to create comparison charts that are as functional as they are eye-catching. From crafting male ...

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.

On Berkeley’s Greater Good Science Center blog, neuroscientist Emiliana Simon-Thomas explained exactly what goes on in your brain when you forgive someone. Her detailed portrait of your brain on ...