A massive international brain study has revealed that memory decline with age isn’t driven by a single brain region or gene, but by widespread structural changes across the brain that build up over ...

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A new study in Proceedings of the Royal Society B reveals the surprising neurological landscape of fish brains. Harvard ...

For decades, scientists have sought to explain the so-called "Cambrian Explosion," a pivotal period over 500 million years ...

Scientists gave people a “heroic” dose of psilocybin and then looked at their brain. Here’s what happened ...

A study using the Very Large Array radio telescope may have discovered a magnetic field on exoplanet YZ Ceti b. Magnetic ...

Just like vertebrates, cephalopods—such as octopuses and squid—have elaborate brains. Neuroscientists are flocking to them ...

Just over 40 years ago, in his novel Contact, astronomer Carl Sagan imagined what it would be like to detect radio signals beamed from other intelligent lifeforms in the galaxy. In the story, these ...

A new study proposes a shift in the search for extraterrestrial life, moving away from individual biosignatures toward ...

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Elon Musk's neuroscience startup Neuralink has released footage that it says shows a macaque monkey playing video games using ...