For years, I'd heard that the human brain weighs just around 1.3 kg. But the thing I was holding was much heavier than that. It turns out that the human brain is very fragile.

Welcome to “Brains!”, Slate’s special issue on mind science and the state of neuro-culture.Over the next few days, we’ll present a series of articles about how laboratory research on the ...

Slate’s Forrest Wickman explains the reasoning behind this number: The human brain contains roughly 100 billion neurons [Ed. note: closer to 86-billion , actually, but now we’re just being ...

Most of the people in my class have a scientific mindset and see objects for just what they are, so seeing and holding a human brain was fascinating but not jaw-dropping in the same way it was for ...

A molecular "eraser" has been found in the brain, scientists report today, suggesting that without it our memory tracks would function about as well as a computer without a delete key. Reporting ...

Right to slate taxpayer money for brain research? Comments are edited for clarity and grammar: Obama dedicated $100million to map the brain, hoping to shed light on Alzheimer's disease and autism.