Graduate student Emre Caglayan (left) and lead scientist Genevieve Konopka stand in their lab Oct. 17 at the Pickens Biomedical Building on the campus of UT Southwestern in Dallas. Elías Valverde ...

A new study from Northwestern University is reshaping how scientists think about brain evolution. The research suggests that ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. If humans want to learn more about our higher brain functions and ...

In the mice with large-brain primate microbes, the researchers found increased expression of genes associated with energy production and synaptic plasticity, the physical process of learning in the ...

The microorganisms in our gastrointestinal tract-the gut microbiome, can exert a profound influence on the human body, and ...

THE HUMAN brain—the enigmatic organ of thought—is the most intricate object in the universe, a tangled orchestra of hundreds of billions of cells generating precise electrical impulses that make up a ...

Andrew Barron receives funding from Templeton World Charity Foundation Project Grant TWCF-2020-2539 The animal world is full of different types of intelligence, from the simple bodily coordination of ...

An international study changes the view that exposure to the toxic metal lead is largely a post-industrial phenomenon. The research reveals that our human ancestors were periodically exposed to lead ...

For more than a century, scientists have treated the brain as the undisputed command center of human evolution, with the rest ...