New study shows plastic accumulates in the brain, as well as other body parts. Scientists don't know what impact it has if any.

It is a mystery we all experience without fully understanding. How does our brain command our body to move? The answer may ...

Vertical AI acts much like the rest of the human body, taking the insights generated by the brain and applying them to specific tasks.

Human brains today contain 50% more plastic than in 2016, a new study found. Brain of people diagnosed with dementia had the most.

Researchers have developed a method to keep a brain alive and functioning for several hours without being connected to the body.

The human brain may contain up to a spoon’s worth of tiny plastic shards—not a spoonful, but the same weight (about seven grams) as a plastic spoon, according to new findings published Monday ...

Although microplastics have already been found in human lungs, intestines, liver, blood, testicles and even semen, it had long been thought that the body's protective blood-brain barrier might ...

It's common knowledge that our brains—and, specifically, our brain cells—store memories. But a team of scientists has discovered that cells from other parts of the body also perform a memory ...

In this cross-journal Collection we invite submissions of basic, pre-clinical, and clinical studies focusing on the bidirectional communication between the brain and the body in both health and ...

A new study identified the tiny pollutants in the olfactory bulbs of eight cadavers, suggesting microplastics can travel through the nose to the brain ...

Human brains today contain 50% more plastic than in 2016, a new study found. Brain of people diagnosed with dementia had the most.