Color perception depends heavily on how the brain processes visual contrast. This video presents a quick illusion designed to ...

Dopamine – a brain chemical associated with reward – appears to prompt people to move faster when they want something, researchers recently reported in the journal Science Advances.

The Trump administration is curbing animal experiments in response to shifts in public opinion, technological advances, years ...

Brain scans show that time in nature quiets stress circuits, restores attention, and reduces rumination in measurable ways.

Living human neurons were trained to play Doom, extending the long-running engineering benchmark into biological computing.

Cocaine addiction isn’t simply a failure of willpower — it’s the result of lasting biological changes in the brain.

A new study shows that improving your cardiovascular endurance changes your neural chemistry. Fitter individuals release larger amounts of a restorative protein after a single workout, which helps the ...

Biotech startup Cortical Labs is working on two small data centers run by human brain cells, putting lab-grown neurons onto silicon in an experiment that could one day challenge chips from the likes ...

By measuring the magnetic fields of the brain, researchers found that different contemplative practices uniquely change how ...

A chronological map of the fetal brain reveals when key cells emerge and provides clues about autism and cancer.

Growing neurons rely on chemical cues to find their targets, but new research shows that the brain’s physical properties help ...