University of California San Diego scientists say this discovery could help offer a path to new therapies and technologies ...

Brain researchers have identified a bridge between the thalamus and the cortex as the key area that is modified during motor learning functions. They found that such learning does much more than ...

A landmark study published by scientists at the University of California San Diego is redefining science's understanding of the way learning takes place.

What if the key to better grades, less stress, and healthier habits was already in your head? From all-nighters and ...

I came across this exhibition purely by fate. My friend Danny was visiting from Bangkok and after I told him about my career as an art historian, he started raving about the artist currently on view ...

Summary: A new study reveals that the way DNA folds inside brain cells plays a critical role in glioblastoma, one of the deadliest forms of brain cancer. Researchers discovered that in cancer cells, ...

Adolescents who sleep for longer – and from an earlier bedtime – tend to have improved brain function and perform better at cognitive tests, according to the study. But the findings showed ...

Tariffs are pure psychology for the president, fused into his brain like no other topic. Why it matters: Trump’s tariff brain is unpredictable to the outside (and to market analysts) but wholly ...

Find this story in your account’s ‘Saved for Later’ section. “Strategist Brain” is a series in which staffers share the stores they’ve stopped in to, stuff they’ve spotted ...

“It is no use asking for the impossible, such as, say, the exact wiring diagram for a cubic millimeter of brain tissue and the way all its neurons are firing,” he wrote in Scientific American ...