When a baby smiles at you, it's almost impossible not to smile back. This spontaneous reaction to a facial expression is part ...

The human brain is often compared to a computer, but the latest wave of research shows it is closer to a self-building city, ...

For more than a century, brain imaging has been a story of trade-offs: sharp pictures but slow timing, or fast signals with ...

A sizeable cavernous malformation, a small cluster of fragile blood vessels, sat snugly in the left temporal lobe. If ...

We rely on smell more than most people may realize. Across mammals, scent guides feeding, warns of danger, and shapes social ...

Arnold Menezes had a 50-year career at the University of Iowa, where he innovated novel neurosurgical procedures, established spinal neurosurgery programs around the world, and put thousands of ...

A self-described nudist masseur from Bunbury who provided "internal" massages has been found guilty of multiple sex offences. WARNING: This story contains details of sexual assault that readers may ...

Is language core to thought, or a separate process? For 15 years, the neuroscientist Ev Fedorenko has gathered evidence of a language network in the human brain — and has found some similarities to ...

The way the brain’s shape changes as it ages could help to paint the picture of its overall health and offer early warning signs for dementia—years before typical symptoms emerge. Brain scan analysis ...

Since their discovery in 2004, the grid cells in the brain, which are important for our orientation, have been regarded as a kind of "GPS in the head." However, scientists at the German Cancer ...

However, internal brain structures revealed important differences. Social huntsman spiders had distinctly larger brain areas called "arcuate bodies" and "mushroom bodies," both regions of the brain ...