Inside a lab in the picturesque Swiss town of Vevey, a scientist gives tiny clumps of human brain cells the nutrient-rich ...

A new study published in Science Advances has revealed that humans have been exposed to lead for over two million years. The ...

An international study changes the view that exposure to the toxic metal lead is largely a post-industrial phenomenon. The ...

Some 40 kilometers east of the Tanzanian coast in East Africa lies Latham Island, a rocky, utterly isolated and uninhabited ...

In the middle of the night, the world can sometimes feel like a dark place. Under the cover of darkness, negative thoughts ...

The brain's mechanisms for repairing injuries caused by trauma or degenerative diseases are not yet known in detail. Now, a ...

Every day, your brain makes thousands of decisions under uncertainty. Most of the time, you guess right. When you don't, you ...

A new study has brought scientists one step further in the direction of developing a cure for a brutal group of rare brain ...

A digital twin is a virtual replica of a real system, a dynamic model that, fed by real-time data, mimics the behaviour of ...

A groundbreaking study conducted by engineers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst has developed an artificial neuron ...

How is it that we all see the world in a similar way? Imagine sitting with a friend in a café, both of you looking at a phone screen displaying a dog running along the beach. Although each of our ...

Spatial memory — the ability to recall “where” — is one of the first cognitive skills to decline in aging and a hallmark of ...