Microplastics are accumulating in human brains at alarming levels, with the highest concentrations found in people diagnosed ...

An intermediary thalamic relay station (incoming neurons in red, outgoing neurons in green). (Kuno et al., Cell Rep., 2026) A ...

Using a range of brain measurement techniques researchers assessed the effects of a single, high dose of psilocybin in ...

The human brain's soft folds and ridges, arising in early development and continuing through the first 18 months of life, are a visual icon for intelligence itself. Peeling back the layers of this ...

A single psychedelic trip may cause physical changes in the brain that could explain why some people report psychological ...

New research suggests pregnancy doesn’t impair the brain—it reshapes it, refining memory, attention, and emotional awareness ...

When modeled jointly, these factors explained up to 15 times more variance in brain aging than any single exposure alone. This finding highlights a key shift: environmental influences on brain health ...

A new analysis of individual brain cells across several human brain regions reveals subtle but widespread differences in gene activity between male and female brains. This may help explain why some ...

It's a question that has baffled scientists for centuries - what happens in the seconds before you die? Now, researchers from ...

"Understanding how spaceflight impacts the human brain is crucial as space exploration and tourism expand," a recently-published study explains Becca Longmire is a digital news writer-reporter at ...