The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today approved a brain implant designed to treat epilepsy. The implant is now approved for use in the U.S....
NPR reports that a new study from University of Rochester researchers may explain not only why we so desperately need sleep, but also the role sleep p...
Archaeologists in western Turkey have uncovered a 4,000-year-old human brain, preserved inside its skull. The brain, one of the oldest ever found, was...
Make someone happy with the push of a button? Make someone do a silly dance by delivering an electrical signal? Sign me up, brain hacking sounds aweso...
Last month, researchers at Harvard University revealed that they have developed a brain-to-brain interface that can allow humans to control the moveme...
As expected, President Obama has officially announced a bold new brain-mapping project that will attempt to do for the human brain what the Human Geno...
In the same way that the Human Genome Project has helped improve our understanding of human genetics, the White House is hoping that a new project cou...
Today, our favorite YouTube science illustrators want to teach you about fast thinking and slow thinking with some cool brain tricks. I can see no rea...
A new study shows that smoking, high blood pressure, and other cardiovascular risk factors are associated with accelerated declines in memory, learnin...
The most important thing to take from this infographic is that there are ways that you can maintain a healthy brain. The ways to do this are pretty si...