Brain scans of thousands of people revealed that the human brain has five distinct eras, with turning points in the way it is ...

A selection of science-based books from the year that together shine new light on who we are and why we think and act as we do.

Intermittent fasting has moved far beyond a weight loss trend, with early evidence hinting that time restricted eating may ...

An international study changes the view that exposure to the toxic metal lead is largely a post-industrial phenomenon. The research reveals that our human ancestors were periodically exposed to lead ...

On Jan. 9, 1800, a strange boy wandered out of the woods and into the small village of Saint-Sernin in the South of France. Clad only in the torn remnants of a shirt, he appeared wholly untutored, ...

Nothing teaches us how the brain works like neurosurgery, maintains Theodore Schwartz, MD, of Weill Cornell Medicine in New York City. "We tend to think about neuroscientists, neurologists, and ...

What if a machine could truly understand itself? The idea seems pulled from the pages of science fiction, yet recent breakthroughs suggest we might be closer to this reality than we ever imagined. In ...