With an estimated 86 billion neurons, the 3lb organ between your ears may be one of the most complex objects in the universe. All that complexity allows the brain to process more than 70,000 thoughts ...

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“A terabyte is, for most people, gigantic, yet a fragment of a human brain – just a miniscule, teeny-weeny little bit of human brain – is still thousands of terabytes.” The latest map in Science ...

Researchers have used a new human reference genome, which includes many duplicated and repeat sequences left out of the original human genome draft, to identify genes that make the human brain ...

A new study highlights five key eras of human brain development, and they don’t align with age quite as one might expect.

Researchers around the world are studying how the human brain achieves its extraordinary complexity. A team at the Central ...

Reading brain activity with advanced technologies is not a new concept. However, most techniques have focused on identifying single words associated with an object or action a person is seeing or ...

New research suggests the human brain has five distinct ages, and it may not reach adulthood until a person's early 30s.

FEW PEOPLE want to talk about women’s periods. The reluctance to speak plainly about “that time of the month” might explain why some gynaecological conditions are often undiagnosed. Take endometriosis ...

Cognitively normal human brain samples collected at autopsy in early 2024 contained more tiny shards of plastic than samples collected eight years prior, according to a new study. Overall, cadaver ...