This is not a work of art. It’s an image of microscopic blood flow in a rat’s brain, taken with one of many new tools that are yielding higher levels of detail in brain imaging. Here are seven more ...

In order to understand how the brain works, neuroscientists need to take a close look at how neuron networks are wired together. However this isn’t easy, after all just one cubic millimeter in the ...

D espite being almost genetically identical to modern humans, Neanderthals had much chunkier faces, with big noses, ...

Listening to music in more realistic lab settings activates widespread brain areas involved in cognition, movement control, and emotion. The replication of previous findings validates naturalistic ...

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