The brain seeks novelty. Passive tasks can lead to skill decline. Challenging the brain with new learning, like a new ...

Professor Paul Colombo has studied music-based mentoring, memory, and the benefits of music training over the course of his ...

One year ago, Tim Andrews was among the world’s first recipients of a genetically modified pig kidney. Now, he is the first in that small group of pioneers to go on to receive a human kidney.

Scientists have discovered that the adolescent brain does more than prune old connections. During the teen years, it actively ...

So if we’re right, each former human is now essentially a radio transmitter and receiver. One plurb sends out a signal that ...

Bone metastases from pancreatic tumors are rare, representing less than 5% of all metastases [ 2 ]. Among these, only three ...

Our thoughts are an ever-changing swirl of fears, feelings, desires, impulses, memories and body sensations that interact to ...

For decades, dopamine has been celebrated in neuroscience as the quintessential "reward molecule"—a chemical herald of ...