When your mind goes blank, visual stimuli never reaches awareness. Study mapped the unique brain patterns behind these mental ...

Your brain is constantly juggling information that arrives in a flash with thoughts that unfold over seconds, minutes, or ...

For more than a century, brain imaging has been a story of trade-offs: sharp pictures but slow timing, or fast signals with ...

Understanding the link between brain activity and behavior is among the core interests of neuroscience. Having a better grasp of this relationship will both help scientists understand how the brain ...

Running fights junk food’s mental toll—healing the gut, balancing hormones, and protecting the brain.

Large studies encompassing thousands of people have since shown that following the MIND diet corresponds with better ...

It's one of nature's greatest ironies: the human brain lacks the ability to grasp its own complexity. Indeed, the brain is complicated. The three-pound organ housed in our heads consists of roughly 86 ...

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.

Recent fossil and skull studies reveal a surprising trend: Despite a fourfold increase in brain size starting around 2 million years ago, which coincided with major advancements in tool use, social ...