These four hands-on activities guide students to explore how their attention and memory function and how that impacts ...

Your brain is currently expending about a fifth of your body's energy, and almost none of that is being used for what you're ...

Brain cells named for stars are finally getting their time to shine. Three distinct studies, published May 15 in Science, show that astrocytes, once thought of as support cells, powerfully shape how ...

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Nothing rivals the human brain's complexity. Its 86 billion neurons and 85 billion other cells make an estimated 100 trillion ...

How the human brain organizes its visual memories through precise neural timing has been discovered. Researchers at the University of Southern California (USC; CA, USA) have made a significant ...

What if one of the most powerful ways to support children’s mental health and self-esteem… was simply teaching them how their brains work? It may sound simple—and it can be life-changing. When ...

The appearance of predictive text in writing an email or text message has become, for better or worse, a regular feature of ...