A TED Talk-style presentation on the effects of tangled DNA strands took first place at this year's Postdoc Slam competition, which is held in celebration of National Postdoc Appreciation Week.

Researchers studying fruit flies discovered that nerve cells sensing limb motion are turned off when the insect moves, allowing the brain to switch between stabilizing posture and enabling dynamic ...

Those who predict that superintelligence will destroy humanity serve the same interests as those who believe that it will ...

The Gateway Process was originally the brainchild of radio producer Robert Monroe, who in the 1970s studied the effects of certain sound patterns on human consciousness. He claimed that his ...

Researchers discovered that certain human brain cells evolved unusually fast, altering autism-linked gene activity.

Gov. Mike Kehoe issued his statement following President Donald Trump's recent comments about deploying the Guard to fight ...

What happens when you listen to speech at a different speed? Neuroscientists thought that your brain may turn up its ...

People with temporal lobe epilepsy in particular often wander around aimlessly and unconsciously after a seizure. Researchers ...

A slew of new research attempts to zero in on what happens as our brains get older — and what can bring about those changes early.

Researchers at Lehigh University in Pennsylvania are leading an ambitious project to study how tiny lab-grown brain samples, ...

Now, a $30 million gift to Harvard University from philanthropist Lisa Yang is propelling these efforts by establishing the K ...

Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Coimbra have discovered that the human brain organizes hand movements much like an alphabet — combining a small set of simple motions ...