The Arctic ground squirrel survives conditions that would cause irreparable brain damage in almost any other mammal on the ...

An Arctic ground squirrel survives brutal winters by entering a deep hibernation. Its body temperature plummets to below freezing, and its heart rate slows dramatically. Remarkably, the squirrel wakes ...

Your brain is your body’s control center. But how much do you really know about what it does? The brain is one of the most complex organs in your body. It’s the control center that oversees pretty ...

New brain imaging research suggests that how you live today can literally reshape how old your brain looks tomorrow, with some people showing a biological “brain age” up to eight years younger than ...

Annabeth Baah had no noticeable symptoms of a brain tumor, such as headaches or blurry vision — but her optometrist knew something was wrong Wendy Grossman Kantor is an award-winning journalist who ...

Yesterday, I noticed something extraordinary. For the past five years, I’ve frequently driven a challenging seven-hour drive between a small mountain town and my hometown of Vancouver, Canada. For ...