A certain type of brain training appears to prevent or delay dementia by some 25% in people older than age 65, according to new research.

The Greenland shark, known formally as Somniosus microcephalus, holds a distinction no other vertebrate can claim: it can ...

Researchers tracked more than 400 toddlers to see whether mRNA COVID-19 vaccination during or just before pregnancy was linked to autism or developmental delays. After detailed assessments of speech, ...

A review of over 500 reports of cannibalistic behavior in snakes finds it's appeared multiple times in different evolutionary lineages, leading researchers to hypothesize it's beneficial for snakes ...

An engineer by training, he used systems theory and quantitative analysis to examine criminal behavior, revealing the ...

For decades, psychologists have argued over a basic question. Can one grand theory explain the human mind, or do attention, ...

For people living with Parkinson’s disease, there has been a gap between laboratory research and real-world behavior that has limited efforts to improve gait symptoms outside of the clinic. Now, ...

For years, scientists have studied how the brain controls movement by asking patients to perform structured tasks while connected to multiple sensors in a lab. While these studies have provided ...

Feel freezing during a fever? Scientists identify the brain circuit responsible for chills and why it sends signals to your ...

Researchers developed an advanced AI system named YORU that can identify specific animal behaviors with over 90% accuracy ...

A male fruit fly in a laboratory chamber extends his wings and vibrates them to produce his species' version of a love song.

A multi-institutional team of researchers led by Virginia Tech's Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC has for the first time identified specific patterns of brain chemical activity that predict ...