Unlike other primates, humans are exposed to high levels of placental sex hormones in the womb, which may have shaped our evolutionary brain development ...

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Trump and his cohort have proposed huge cuts to the National Institutes of Health, including a whopping 38% cut for The ...

Ants in the genus Brachymyrmex have a 1:8 brain-to-body-mass ratio. (Image credit: vinisouza128 / 500px via Getty Images) Just as absolute brain size isn't a good predictor of animal intelligence ...

The brain plays a big part in the aging process, and scientists think they’ve pinpointed the specific cells that control it. In a study of mice, researchers at the Allen Institute identified ...

Despite being the biggest whale, the blue whale does not have the biggest brain of any creature. According to the Smithsonian, the sperm whale has the largest brain to have ever existed on Earth .

Scientists have mapped an unprecedentedly large portion of the brain of a mouse. The cubic millimeter worth of brain tissue represents the largest piece of a brain we’ve ever understood to this ...

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, ...

Check out the big brain on Brad! Researchers believe there could be some truth to the (pulp) fiction line, as a recent study has shown that our brains may in fact be getting bigger over time. The ...

The secret to our big brain may lie in the microbes that help the body break down food and produce energy. The findings are detailed in a study published December 2 in the journal Microbial Genomics .

IBM has revealed the biggest artificial brain of all time, a simulation run by a 147,456-processor supercomputer. Will we ever get to truly capable artificial intelligence? PM reports from IBM's Al ...

There's a big change happening in neuroscience. Researchers are taking a closer look at cells that were once dismissed as merely the glue that holds a brain together.