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an illustration of a baby, a young woman, and adult woman, and an elderly woman walking

Your brain changes at 9, 32, 66, and 83

By Laura Baisas

Neural implant sensor resting on grain of salt

This brain implant is smaller than a grain of rice

a graphic of the brain with several multi-colored balls inside

Why some memories stick while others fade

By Laura Baisas

a 3D graphic of a pink brain with multicolored, square confetti being tossed at it

How your brain can tell squishy ‘stuff’ from hard ‘things’

By Laura Baisas

A highly detailed visualization of a glowing blue neuron with electric impulses traveling through its synapses. This futuristic and scientific representation illustrates brain activity, artificial intelligence, and the complexity of neural networks in both biology and technology

Biomedical engineers grow whole-brain organoid

blue face looks out as the edges fade

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How does your brain know something is real?

By Keith Wagstaff

An illustration of a microscopic neural network in the brain.

Even old brains can make new neurons, study suggests

By Lauren Leffer

an illustration of a human brain with a lightbulb over it, simulating an idea

Your ‘Eureka!’ moments can be seen in brain scans

By Laura Baisas

Neurons and their branch extensions known as dendrites are featured within a mouse’s cerebral cortex.

Scientists watch how mice learn, one synapse at a time

Father teaching baby how to walk in living room

Why don’t we remember being a baby? New clues in memory mystery.

A fragment of the black organic glass found inside the skull of the deceased individual in Herculaneum.

Mount Vesuvius eruption turned a victim’s brain into glass

Tiny pieces of plastic were found lodged in blood vessels in the brains of mice.

Microplastics look like a ‘car crash’ in mice brains

Patient with paralysis uses mind to pilot virtual quadcopter

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How does science explain déjà vu? It’s a brain glitch with a purpose.

By Julia Craven

a scan of a zebrafish with its eye highlighted in green and other parts of its anatomy stained red and blue

Mapping the shifting gaze of ‘fishlets’

By Laura Baisas

brain scans of people watching clips from movies

MIT maps how the brain experiences movies

By Laura Baisas

Astrocytes; neuroglial cells, 250X at 35mm.

‘Swiss army knife’ of the brain: How star-shaped cells reshape our understanding of memory

Octopus in water

The ‘smart’ animal club keeps getting bigger

By Mack DeGeurin

Brain and brain waves in epilepsy, computer illustration. This EEG (electroencephalogram) illustration shows generalized epilepsy, affecting the whole brain cortex: all the EEG traces show chaotic brain waves. Epilepsy can take many forms, and have different effects. This could illustrate both benign epilepsy (inherited childhood form that normally improves with age), and myoclonic epilepsy (form that causes muscle contractions). An EEG measures electrical activity in the brain using electrodes attached to the scalp.

100 years of EEG: How this technology transformed neuroscience

By Erika Nyhus / The Conversation

Illustration of 3D printed brain tissue culture with 25nm scale

Scientists have 3D bioprinted functioning human brain tissue