The average human brain weighs in at around 3 pounds, and an elephant brain can weigh close to four times that much, but the biggest brains of all come sperm whales, and weigh an average of 17 pounds.

“This is the largest such study to date,” commented study supervisor Dr Alex Tsompanidis in a statement. Total brain volume was found to be higher on average in the male babies, even when ...

Here are 10 of the biggest and most widely believed misconceptions about the human brain, and why they're wrong. 1. There are 'left brain' and 'right brain' people ...

Researchers have created the largest atlas of human brain cells so far, revealing more than 3,000 cell types — many of which are new to science. The work, published in a package of 21 papers ...

Scientists are one step closer to understanding the 170 billion brain cells that allow us to walk, talk, and think. A newly published atlas offers the most detailed maps yet of the location ...

A new atlas of the human brain could help explain abilities like language – and vulnerabilities, like Alzheimer's disease. Scientists built the largest-ever map of the human brain.

In a package of 21 research studies published across Science, Science Advances, and Science Translational Medicine, researchers present an atlas of the human and nonhuman primate brain at the cell ...

A new atlas of the human brain could help explain abilities like language – and vulnerabilities, like Alzheimer's disease.

Scientists have built the biggest artificial brain of all time using a supercomputer powered by 147,456 processors, 150,000 gigabytes of memory and millions of watts of electricity that's about as ...

A human brain is many times more complicated than the brain of a fruit fly and we are a long way from being able to attempt this feat. "There's a million-fold difference in neurons between the fly ...

Researchers have created the largest atlas of human brain cells so far, revealing more than 3,000 cell types — many of which are new to science. The work, ...

“This is the largest such study to date,” commented study supervisor Dr Alex Tsompanidis in a statement. Total brain volume ...