The human brain is often compared to a computer, but the latest wave of research shows it is closer to a self-building city, ...

England’s meek concession of the series is a waste of talent and this stroke sums up the structural failure No doubt someone, somewhere, in some fevered corner of the internet will come up with a ...

University of Bristol provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation UK. The Grinch is one of the holiday season’s most familiar icons. The grumpy, green, fur-covered misanthrope who ...

The brain Anatomy often mirrors personality. Judging by behavior, the Grinch's frontal lobes, particularly his prefrontal cortex, would be on the small side—explaining his flat and small forehead.

Is language core to thought, or a separate process? For 15 years, the neuroscientist Ev Fedorenko has gathered evidence of a language network in the human brain — and has found some similarities to ...

It used to be thought that sea urchins only had a primitive nervous system, but new research has found that they are far more complex than that. The entire body of a sea urchin is what researchers are ...

The way the brain’s shape changes as it ages could help to paint the picture of its overall health and offer early warning signs for dementia—years before typical symptoms emerge. Brain scan analysis ...

The development of many psychiatric disorders, including depression, schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, is known to be in great part influenced by genetics. Past research has identified various genes ...

Jeremy Herskowitz, Ph.D., Patsy W. and Charles A. Collat Professor of Neuroscience in the Department of Neurology, has been named the latest recipient of the school’s Featured Discovery award. This ...

A cat owner from Vermont has left internet users puzzled after sharing a picture of her rag-doll cat sleeping in an odd position that many still struggle to understand. The cat's owner, Kyra Wilson, ...

Allen Institute researchers Leila Elabbady and Clay Reid examine brain mapping data from the MICrONS project. (Allen Institute Photo) Researchers say they’ve accomplished a feat that was said to be ...