A high-quality visual rendering accurately depicts a 1 cubic millimeter sample of a human brain. Reddit users have repeatedly ...

Therefore, there must be zero of them.’” In recent years, research started to uncover how the human brain represents numbers, but no one examined how it handles zero. Now two independent studies, led ...

organised and run by a brain composed of about 140,000 neurons—more than the 300 or so found in a nematode worm, but far fewer than the 86bn of a human brain, or even the 70m in a mouse.

It's one of nature's greatest ironies: the human brain lacks the ability to grasp its own complexity. Indeed, the brain is complicated. The three-pound organ housed in our heads consists of roughly 86 ...

What will it take to make such bold predictions come true? Scientists who have been pondering how to enhance the human brain’s capacity think nanotechnology will be the vehicle for this ...

A landmark study has begun to unravel one of the fundamental mysteries in neuroscience -- how the human brain encodes and makes sense of the flow of time and experiences. A landmark study led by ...

For a long time, it was thought that the human brain existed in splendid isolation from the rest of the body. The so-called blood-brain barrier, a special layer of cells, protects the brain from ...

For many heartbreaking diseases of the brain — dementia, Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s and others — doctors can only treat the symptoms. Medical science does not have a cure. Why? Because it’s difficult to ...

Share on Pinterest Scientists have found microplastics in many parts of the human body, including the brain. MEM Studio/Stocksy Microplastics are common in people’s everyday environments ...

The University of Manchester is the site of InBrain’s first-in-human study, which will test the graphene device in up to 10 patients who are already undergoing brain surgery for other reasons.

Experiments in sheep are hinting that doses of caffeine given to women in pregnancy, as well as their newborns after birth, ...