A genome-wide CRISPR study maps 331 genes essential for early brain development, identifying PEDS1 as a new ...

Researchers in Japan built a miniature human brain circuit using fused stem-cell–derived organoids, allowing them to watch ...

Brain-monitoring wearables have caught the internet’s fancy after Zomato founder Deepinder Goyal’s appearance on a podcast ...

A new paper posits that advanced alien civilizations may communicate through subtle flashes, like fireflies do on Earth. The ...

Studying ancient sea creatures’ snoozing habits could shed light on the origins of sleep.

The observations were carried out by the Breakthrough Listen program as the object neared its closest approach to Earth on ...

A groundbreaking new study reveals that changes to the gut microbiome can change the way the brain works. Humans have the largest relative brain size of any primate, but little is known about how ...

New research shows gut bacteria can directly influence how the brain develops and functions. When scientists transferred ...

What do you get when you take an alien parasite and smush it together with a human being? Would you get to become a ...

A new theoretical study argues that many standard beliefs about consciousness are rooted in a misleading concept of how the ...

The appearance of someone's rear end may reveal a hidden sign that they're dealing with autism, ADHD, or both.