Scientists have mapped the activity that takes place across a mouse's entire brain as it decides how to complete a task - and ...

(Reuters) - More than 250 million years ago, Scotland was not veiled in mist and rain, as it often is today, but rather a desert blanketed in sand dunes. One of the denizens of this challenging ...

A healthy brain maintains a harmony of neurons that excite or inhibit other neurons, but the lines between different types of ...

In his new BBC show, Jim Al-Khalili journeys through hundreds of millions of years of brain evolution. Live Science spoke to ...

Many mammals physically pivot their ears to hone in on a particular sound, and now it seems that a similar action takes place ...

WASHINGTON - The unusually large brains of mammals apparently didn't evolve so that we could ponder philosophy - but so we could sniff our way to success. A new analysis of some of the earliest ...

No human can survive longer than a few minutes underwater, and even a well-trained Olympic swimmer needs frequent gulps of air. Our brains need a constant supply of oxygen, particularly during ...

Researchers discovered that autism’s prevalence may be linked to human brain evolution. Specific neurons in the outer brain evolved rapidly, and autism-linked genes changed under natural selection.

The lizard brain controls our vital functions, such as breathing, digestion, and heartbeat, and similar complexes can be found in the brains of reptiles, hence the name. The mammal brain is concerned ...

A Mediterranean diet that ditched meat in favor of polyphenol-rich plant products like green tea and walnuts led to ...