Excavated with colonial labor and shipped to the Netherlands, the famous fossil is being repatriated to Indonesia along with 28,000 other fossils. The skull cap of 'Java Man' was discovered by Eugène ...

Stepping out in New York City, Victoria Beckham made her way to the Balenciaga store for a day full of shopping. And while she didn’t reveal what she left the shop with, we do know that she walked in ...

Inside a lab in the picturesque Swiss town of Vevey, a scientist gives tiny clumps of human brain cells the nutrient-rich fluid they need to stay alive.

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. When you wake up in the morning, it might feel like your brain just switched on at the ring of an ...

During ageing, men experience a greater reduction in volume across more regions of the brain than women do, according to a longitudinal study published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy ...

I recently wrote about how children and adolescents who spend more time in digital environments than they do having real-world experiences (see "Getting Our Kids' Brains Back on Track"). One of the ...

New evidence has found that male brains really may shrink faster than female brains with age. Among 4,726 participants with healthy cognition, brain scans have revealed "modest yet systematic sex ...

Woahhhh, who’s that really cool guy? He’s totally feeling the music — look at him groove! People on the internet couldn’t stop staring at this hip fella over at the Eudora Wildlife Safari in Aiken, ...

More than seven million Americans have Alzheimer’s, and by 2050, that number is expected to increase to nearly 13 million, according to the Alzheimer’s Association. The lifetime risk for Alzheimer’s ...

Backed by research, endorsed by doctors, tracked by apps, the basics of healthy living have become part of a canon. We can recite the precepts—move more, eat carefully, sleep well, don’t smoke—even if ...

A new study may challenge what we thought we knew about brain aging. Scientists have discovered that men’s brains shrink faster than women’s as they grow older, even though women are more likely to ...