If you have ever lifted a weight, you know the routine: challenge the muscle, give it rest, feed it, and repeat. Over time, it grows stronger. Of course, muscles only grow when the challenge increases ...

The development of humans and other animals unfolds gradually over time, with cells taking on specific roles and functions ...

A headless cockroach isn’t fictional biology. Here’s how its decentralized systems keep it alive for days after being ...

Some people carry Alzheimer’s-related brain damage for years without symptoms. Scientists say the difference lies in brain ...

Neuroscientists are increasingly finding that when you encounter a familiar reward, your body begins to gear up for action before you consciously weigh your options. Patterns of brain activity, ...

If you have ever lifted a weight, you know the routine: challenge the muscle, give it rest, feed it and repeat. Over time, it ...

Try to remember your first birthday party. You can probably conjure up a vague image based on a photograph your parents showed you a thousand times. That mental image is most likely false. The truth ...

A new computational model of the brain based closely on its biology and physiology not only learned a simple visual category learning task exactly as ...

In his introductory lecture Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself, Dr Joe Dispenza challenges one of the most comfortable ...

When a baby smiles at you, it’s almost impossible not to smile back. This spontaneous reaction to a facial expression is part of the back-and-forth that allows us to understand each other’s emotions ...

A neurologist explains why the brain strengthens much like muscle –\u00A0through challenge, rest and novelty – and how simple ...