The human brain's soft folds and ridges, arising in early development and continuing through the first 18 months of life, are ...

There’s this idea that something happens in the human brain when we turn 25. Suddenly, we can rent a car without fees. Make ...

Modern neuroscience understands the brain as a set of specialized systems. Aspects of brain function such as attention, ...

Right-brain vs. left-brain thinking is often discussed in psychology. Everybody uses both thinking types to some degree, but nearly everyone tends to have one or the other as a primary thinking style.

Stressful study sessions help us pass exams, but curiosity promotes long-term understanding and information retention. In A ...

As AI makes thinking easier experts warn that mental fitness is at risk and explain why training your brain still matters more than ever.

New research suggests intelligence arises not from a single brain region, but from how networks across the brain work together as an integrated system. Neuroscientists often describe the brain as a ...

Neurosurgeon and Engineer Dr. Ben Rapoport, co-founder of Precision Neuroscience, joins WIRED to answer the internet's burning questions about the emerging technology of brain implants and ...

Despite lacking a hippocampus entirely—and having diverged from the mammalian lineage roughly 400 million years ago—larval ...

Cosmology has a way of turning everyday certainty inside out, and few ideas do it more brutally than the suggestion that your ...

Pea-size clusters of human cells called brain organoids inspire both hope and fear. Experts are debating how scientists can responsibly use these bits of gray matter.

Brain scans suggest probiotic yogurt may subtly influence brain chemistry and connectivity, alongside changes in the gut ...