You could live for a thousand years and barely scratch the surface of all of the information there is out there. There’s ...

Lesser-known facts about brain tumors include that they are fairly common and that they don't always cause headaches.

It's a myth that we use only 10% of our brains. However, you're not alone in buying into this. A survey done about 10 years ago found that almost two-thirds of Americans shared this misconception.

Learning is fun. No, really! From the crazy way a starfish eats, to the people who worship turkeys, we have a bunch of ...

Popular culture abounds with “facts” about the brain, such as we only use 10% of it (false) it weighs three pounds (true), consumes as much energy as a 20 Watt light bulb (true), shrinks with alcohol ...

A 2023 study found that shorter sleep duration causes reduced brain cortical thickness. Sleep disorders increase the risk of Alzheimer’s, stroke, and cognitive decline. Chronic sleep deprivation ...

What happens to our brains as we get older? Well, for the most part, they shrink—but not all of this shrinkage is inevitable. To find out how to slow, and even reverse, age-associated brain shrinkage, ...

The human brain processes spoken language in a step-by-step sequence that closely matches how large language models transform text.

A Great Neck student has been named champion of this year’s Long Island Brain Bee. Isabella Fong, of Great Neck South High School, won first place in the seventh annual neuroscience competition, held ...

Last week Dr. C. Judson Herrick, University of Chicago neurologist, issued statements anent the brain. There are 9,200,000,000 cells in the human cortex. In the process of thought one of these cells ...

Great Neck South High School sophomore Isabella Fong is the winner of the seventh-annual Long Island Brain Bee, hosted by the Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell on March ...

Popular culture abounds with “facts” about the brain, such as we only use 10 percent of it (false); it weighs three pounds (true); it consumes as much energy as a 20 Watt light bulb (true); it shrinks ...