The research shows that the human brain is in fact two old nervous systems combined together: one primitive section which ...

This artist's concept depicts a tidal disruption event, which occurs when a star passes fatally close to a supermassive black ...

Viruses are master builders. With no blueprint, no scaffolding, and no external machinery, they somehow snap together ...

It’s a breakthrough that feels almost science fiction: decoding what an animal sees by reading its brain signals and turning them back into moving images. Vision begins when light hits the retina, but ...

Artist’s concept depicting Elias 2-24 b, the youngest exoplanet detected to date, still growing within the disk of gas and ...

Venus and Earth are often called twins because they’re similar in size, mass, and composition. Yet one striking difference ...

Neurons are extraordinary cells, and part of what makes them so complex is the extra-long genes they rely on, stretches of DNA that can run over 100,000 base pairs. These genes are essential for brain ...

When the Apollo astronauts were the first to set foot on the Moon, they demonstrated that humanity had the capability of ...