The front and back parts of our brain come from different progenitor cells in embryos, which suggests they evolved as separate entities ...

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 doing right now. Reading these words, feeling the weight of your body in a ...

Neuroscience has often treated consciousness as something produced by the brain alone. An emerging body of research expands that view, suggesting that conscious experience is shaped through a ...

Your brain is busy all day – planning, worrying, imagining, replaying conversations, solving problems. But when you’re not focusing on something specific, it still has a “go-to” mode it tends to ...

Last month, we introduced the idea that looking after our brain is something we can all do. But what does “brain health” actually mean in practice? Brain health is about how well our brain works ...

If you have ever lifted a weight, you know the routine: challenge the muscle, give it rest, feed it and repeat. Over time, it grows stronger. Of course, muscles only grow when the challenge increases ...