Ancient Magdalenians practiced cannibalism, consuming enemies and possibly loved ones, revealing prehistoric violence.

By fusing different human organoids, researchers have created “mini-brains” containing most of the cell types found in fetal ...

A study led by Professor Ginestra Bianconi from Queen Mary University of London, in collaboration with international ...

The scientists uncovered two groups of brain cells in mice: one that helps mice learn about above-average outcomes and ...

BEIJING -- Researchers from the Institute of Automation at the Chinese Academy of Sciences have revealed the intrinsic ...

A newly identified part of a brain circuit mixes sensory information, memories, and emotions to tell whether things are familiar or new, and important or just 'background noise.' ...

Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis Medicine Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology have identified specific neuronal cells that are essential to our understanding of other people. Runnan ...

How the brain feels about the world around it is the subject of a new paper published in Proceedings of the National Academy ...

John Kounios is a professor of psychological and brain sciences at Drexel University. He is co-author of The Eureka Factor: Aha Moments, Creative Insight, and the Brain (Random House, 2015) and ...

In a cave in Poland, researchers have uncovered disturbing evidence of systematic cannibalism practiced by Magdalenian human groups. Unlike a survival act dictated by famine, this consumption ...

For the study, published in Scientific Reports, scientists analysed remains from Maszycka Cave near Krakow, studying 10 ...

Time is of the essence for a Brazilian neuroscientist who wants to study whale and dolphin brains before the brains decompose ...