A year-long experiment raises new doubts about the safety limits of one of the most popular artificial sweeteners.

Dr. Rhodes shares what happens to your body during an extended fast and which benefits you might actually feel. The post What ...

Scientists are building experimental computers from living human brain cells and testing how they learn and adapt.

Inflammation in the body is often linked to feeling sick, tired, or feverish, but scientists have long suspected that its ...

The human brain is not a passive recorder of events, it is an active simulator that constantly rehearses futures, rewrites ...

We tend to break things down into smaller components to make remembering easier. Event Segmentation Theory explains how we do ...

The cerebellum (which is Latin for ‘little brain’) is the area of the brain in charge of fine motor coordination and balance, and it keeps our movements smooth and stable by predicting what our next ...

New research has charted the major developmental stages in the brain’s wiring—from early-life pruning to late-life network breakdown—offering a new roadmap for how our brains evolve. Colored diffusion ...

Eating a daily serving of peanuts may help older adults improve blood flow to their brains and boost memory, according to new research. In a study published in Clinical Nutrition, scientists at the ...

“My year of unraveling” is how a despairing Christy Morrill described nightmarish months when his immune system hijacked his brain. What’s called autoimmune encephalitis attacks the organ that makes ...