A rare form of dark-colored organic glass, discovered inside the skull of a victim from the 79 CE Mount Vesuvius eruption, likely formed when an intense but short-lived ash cloud superheated the ...

Fast-evolving DNA gives human neurons greater complexity than chimps, aiding cognition but also increasing disease risk. A ...

A new study found the average human brain may contain a spoonful of plastic. Microplastics and nanoplastics have been found in various parts of the human body before this latest research.

Researchers from the University of New Hampshire looked at the developmental process of the cerebral cortex—the outermost ...

For nearly a century, scientists have known that different parts of the human brain's cortex control different body movements. This fundamental discovery dates to the 1930s, when neurosurgeons used ...

This atlas combines single-cell transcriptomic, epigenomic and spatial transcriptomic characterization of more than 32 million cells across all parts of ... As the human brain contains around ...

2306025121 Journal information: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Provided by The City University of New York Citation: Machine learning sheds light on how the human brain perceives ...