While people explore the environment around them, their eyes constantly move between different objects, faces and other specific segments of a visual scene. This dynamic process allows them to ...

Metabolic syndrome is linked to higher risk of many health problems – including those that affect the brain. Belight/ Shutterstock An estimated one in four adults worldwide has metabolic syndrome.

Some brains appear to fight back against Alzheimer's by helping immature brain cells survive damage instead of succumbing to it. Understanding this natural resilience could point researchers toward ...

A new analysis supports the previously overlooked "brain lag" hypothesis—the idea that, in some primate lineages, the evolution of larger body size preceded the evolution of larger brain size—while ...

Healthy brains may be built through a process of controlled damage and rapid repair. The most dangerous type of DNA damage is a regular feature of healthy early brain development, experiments in mice ...

Our brains love shortcuts. Decisions are often made via a subconscious muddling through, due to the brain’s desire to minimise energy use. It is perhaps why we value neat categorisations of someone’s ...

An audacious trial will test psilocybin in people over age sixty to see if increases plasticity in healthy aging brains. A handful of healthy senior citizens are about to trip on psilocybin—to see if ...

Father’s Day is an opportunity to recognize the efforts of dads everywhere. But becoming a father is more than just a lifestyle change—it alters one’s brain, too. Scientific American spoke with Devika ...

Much is made of artificial-intelligence bottlenecks like power, chip packaging and memory. But periodically investors get a reminder that one of the scarcest AI resources is top talent.

Where children live and what their household’s socioeconomic status is leaves a mark on their brains, a new study in Science finds. The results suggest that the fewer opportunities a child’s zip code ...

An Iron Age Scottish woman likely had her brains scooped out after she died as part of her burial, according to a new study that sheds further light on the complex funerary rites of this prehistoric ...

Plus: Anthropic has called for a global slowdown in AI development. This is today's edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's going on in the world of ...