The human brain and universe display similar complexity, with roughly 86 billion neurons compared to 100 billion stars per ...

The complexity of the human brain mirrors the universe, with structures like neurons and galaxies showing surprising ...

“Some part of our being knows this is where we came from,” says Carl Sagan at one point during his epic cosmology-narrating documentary, Cosmos. “We long to return. And we can. Because the cosmos is ...

Using an ultra-high-resolution imaging technology called 7 Tesla functional MRI (fMRI) on human participants, researchers ...

In order to understand something, it helps to observe it up close and study its inner workings. This is no less true for the brain, whether it is the brain of a mouse, that of a whale, or the squishy ...

The human brain is the most complex information integrator known in the universe. With 86 billion neurons and 100 trillion connections between them, the brain gives us our rich subjective experiences ...

Scientists from Duke-NUS Medical School and their collaborators have created one of the most comprehensive single cell maps ...

"There’s much more plastic in our brains than I ever would have imagined," the study's lead author said Getty Researchers have found there's a spoon-sized amount of microplastics in the human brain.