Although you know your teenager takes some chances, it can be a shock to hear about them. One fine May morning not long ago my oldest son, 17 at the time, phoned to tell me that he had just spent a ...

If you don’t know anything about neuroscience, that’s okay — one researcher’s striking theory might send us all back to the start anyway. Consciousness is typically defined as immediate awareness of ...

Source: SC Psychological Enterprises Ltd. According to new research out of Hungary and Sweden, the brain size of modern dog breeds is becoming larger. This is in comparison to more ancient breeds ...

I recently wrote about how children and adolescents who spend more time in digital environments than they do having real-world experiences (see "Getting Our Kids' Brains Back on Track"). One of the ...

Journal Editorial Report: The week's best and worst from Kim Strassel, Jason Riley and Dan Henninger. Bored at a dinner party or work meeting but don’t want to come off as rude by pulling out your ...

Optimism over a potential India–US trade deal, expectations of a 25-bps rate cut by the US Fed, and a rise in the rupee against the US dollar helped the Indian stock market post healthy gains on ...

New research is painting a very different picture about the relationship between cats and their owners, one in which cats not only really do have affection for their owners, but the two are in fact ...

For the last few years, I've watched BMW's design department with the kind of morbid curiosity you reserve for a toddler holding a permanent marker near a white wall. Some of their recent electric ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — A local AI entrepreneur is teaming up with a brain researcher to test whether studying damaged brains — those of stroke patients — can help create smaller, more energy-efficient ...

Until Homo floresiensis was discovered, scientists assumed that the evolution of the human lineage was defined by bigger and bigger brains. Via a process called encephalization, human brains evolved ...