The Whip-Poor-Will’s shrill, death-proclaiming song populates the works of Stephen King and H.P. Lovecraft. But the bird itself has fallen on hard times. Could it become a ghost of Halloweens past?

Neuroscience has identified components that give rise to cognitive function, including molecules, synapses, and brain anatomy, but how connectivity arises from these parts is challenging to uncover.

What Is a Brain Tumor? A brain tumor (also called an intracranial tumor) is a cluster of abnormal cells that grows in or around your brain. There are over a hundred types of tumors that develop in ...

Speed Brain aims to eliminate load times completely by predicting the next page a user will visit, and downloading a webpage to the browser cache before a user navigates to it. Now websites using ...

Major tracts of white matter - which provide connections between different parts of the brain - show evidence of increasing during pregnancy Pregnancy brain really does exist, according to one of ...

It’s okay to be awake for some of the night, but when insomnia keeps you up for so much of the night that you associate the bed with frustration and anxiety, the brain doesn’t get the same cue ...

A meningioma is a tumor that forms on the membranes that cover the brain and spinal cord just inside the skull. These membranes are called the meninges and consist of three layers. Specifically ...

They do each of these things on the basis of sophisticated processing of sound, smell, touch and vision, organised and run by a brain composed of about 140,000 neurons—more than the 300 or so ...

It may sound counterintuitive, but sleep restriction therapy may help cure your insomnia by helping you come up with a ...