For years many people believed that glass is actually a slow moving liquid, but modern science tells a different story. This ...

Scientists found special brain connections in seals and sea lions that help control vocal sounds. This may explain how speech ...

Theorists of consciousness generally focus on sensation – what it's like to, say, experience the color red. Yet what we call the stream of consciousness offers a much richer and more complex blend of ...

Cocaine addiction isn’t simply a failure of willpower — it’s the result of lasting biological changes in the brain.

(Naeblys/iStock/Getty Images Plus) A protein best known for its role in Parkinson's disease may help explain why women make ...

Scientists discovered that lowering a specific molecule helps microglia switch into a protective state that quiets brain inflammation in Alzheimer’s. A small group of these cells seems to have an ...

In this edition of The Daily Why we will explore how that flash where a brand-new moment feels oddly familiar is not a result ...

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A pair of new studies have provided fresh evidence in the long-running scientific debate—and the result could be ...

Studies have shown that working out can cause immediate and direct increases in brain-protective molecules like kynurenic acid, which have been measured within the blood and muscle following exercise.

Eating too quickly can disrupt the body’s natural hunger signals. Doctors explain that the brain takes around 20 minutes to recognise fullness after food reaches the stomach. Fast eating may lead to ...

Researchers at UC San Francisco have discovered a mechanism that could explain how exercise improves cognition by shoring up the brain’s protective barrier of blood vessels. With age, this network of ...