Studies of brain injuries and electrical stimulation seemed to bear this out. Damaging the Broca’s area, for instance, interfered with speech, and stimulating specific tissues could lead to specific ...

Your brain is wrinkled like a walnut, and those wrinkles aren't just for show. Each fold increases the amount of surface area ...

Rice University launched the Global Brain Economy Initiative (GBEI) Jan. 21 during the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. This initiative positions brain capital, or ...

Our thoughts are specified by our knowledge and plans, yet our cognition can also be fast and flexible in handling new ...

Several very important pieces of film and TV technology rely on the assumption that human beings can see green light best and ...

In a paper published in Nature, a team led by University of Chicago paleoanthropologist Professor Zeresenay Alemseged reports ...

“Hundreds of fossils representing over a dozen species of Ardipithecus, Australopithecus, and Homo had been found in the Afar ...

In a year marked by technological change, innovations in science and renewed curiosity about our past and future, faculty emerged as essential voices helping audiences make sense of the world.

An American heart doctor has explained why an unexpected lifestyle habit can be 'just as dangerous for you as smoking' ...

Until the age of 19, Lizzie Ens was a member of a Swartzentruber Amish community in Ohio. Like her 18 other siblings, she ...

During their first public appearance since returning to Earth, the astronauts revealed that a portable ultrasound machine was ...

Rosalind Franklin University (RFU) announced today that Hongkyun Kim, PhD, professor of cell biology and anatomy in RFU's Center for Cancer Cell Biology, Immunology and Infection, was awarded a 5-year ...