Scientists have created the first reference charts for the human brain, mapping its growth from infancy to 100 years old. Now, they have to grapple with difficult ethical questions about how they ...

If terms like "bird brain" and "harebrained" are any indication, animal brains present fascinating and diverse examples of one of the most complex organs known to science. Animal brains differ not ...

Large brains use a lot of energy. Yet brain size has little connection to intelligent problem-solving. Some of the best problem-solvers are birds, who have tiny brains. Do our large brains help us to ...

Behavior that we’d consider intelligent is oddly widespread in the animal kingdom. Animals with very different brains from ours—a species of octopus and various birds—engage with tools, to give just ...

Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in zoology from the University of Reading and a master’s in wildlife documentary production from the University of Salford. Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in ...

The development and upkeep of the human brain are influenced by both genetic factors and environmental conditions, which may subsequently impact the risk of dementia later in life. Thus, a recent ...

Did the 12th century B.C.E. - a time when humans were forging great empires and developing new forms of written text - coincide with an evolutionary reduction in brain size? Think again, says a ...

Researchers have identified thousands of genes linked to brain structure that shine a light on how our genetic makeup shapes the development of the brain, according to research published in Nature ...

University of North Carolina-led researchers have used brain connectivity charts built from functional MRI data as a tool for tracking early childhood brain development. Charts mapped the maturation ...