As aging bodies decline, the brain loses the ability to cleanse itself of waste, a scenario that scientists think could be ...

Aging brains may struggle to clear out waste, contributing to memory loss and diseases like Alzheimer’s. But researchers have now found that improving the brain’s waste-draining vessels in old mice ...

Scientists have uncovered evidence that modern humans emerged from two long-separated ancestral groups, not just one. This ...

It asks whether we are better or worse for removing certain parts of our own consciousness, and it explores that idea through ...

John Tregoning, a scientist, tried a range of hacks said to help him live longer, from a calorie-restricted diet to gene ...

Many of us have a brain that is older than our years. But there are plenty of things you can do to counteract this, says ...

A common myth is that topmost AI such as artificial general intelligence (AGI) will be a solo colossus, one big brain. That's ...

BANGOR, Maine (WABI) - The 10th annual Maine Science Festival continued Thursday with a ‘Science on Tap’ event at Nocturnem ...

After a stroke, gamma oscillations disappear, and parvalbumin neurons lose their connections. Gamma oscillations are like the ...

Why can't we remember when we were babies? Scientists who scanned infants' brains found that they do make memories. The ...

Infants can form memories, and they use a memory structure in the brain called the hippocampus to do it, researchers report in the March 21 Science. The results shore up the idea that memories can in ...

D r. Francis Collins led the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH), the world’s largest funder of biomedical research, ...