Some scientists claim that octopuses could be the next big species after humans go extinct and that there is much to learn about the tentacled sea creatures. These are some ways that octopuses have ...

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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 ...

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 ...

Why don’t we remember specific events during those crucial first few years, when our brains worked overtime to learn so much?

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 ...