New neurons in your brain? A landmark study from Karolinska Institutet finds adults keep forming brain cells into the old age ...

Scientists say they have very strong evidence that the adult human brain is capable of making new neurons, a point of ongoing ...

A government school science teacher in Telangana’s Vikarabad district has been suspended after allegedly bringing a cow’s ...

More information: Clara Benoit-Pilven et al, Early establishment and life course stability of sex biases in the human brain transcriptome, Cell Genomics (2025). DOI: 10.1016/j.xgen.2025.100890 ...

In 2024, Morton-Hayward and her colleagues reported that over 4,000 brain specimens from around the globe and across 12,000 years of history exist in the archaeological record.

A paper published Monday in Nature Medicine found that the tiny fragments of plastic are passing the blood-brain barrier and into human brains, and the amount of microplastics in the brain appears ...

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An international research team has provided an unprecedented look at how gene regulation evolves during human brain development, showing how the 3D structure of chromatin—DNA and proteins ...

This humanoid robot has a mind of its own. Researchers at Tianjin University in China have created a robot that is controlled by human brain cells in a first-of-its-kind breakthrough in ...

As a workaround, the team developed MEGAtome, a vibratome that can slice through large and soft human brain specimens without tearing or squishing. Compared to a state-of-the-art device, MEGAtome ...

The researchers used a dataset of 985 fossil and modern human crania. They surprisingly found that human brains increased in size 2.1 million years ago and again 1.5 million years ago during the ...