How do you intuitively know that you can walk on a footpath and swim in a lake? Researchers from the University of Amsterdam have discovered unique brain activations that reflect how we can move our ...

An optical illusion has been doing the rounds on social media, with many people left scratching their heads as they struggle ...

American psychologist Joseph Jastrow made this illusion in 1899 – to make a point about how the brain perceives what is in ...

A new study reveals that prenatal exposure to common air pollutants like NO₂, PM2.5, and black carbon is associated with ...

This puzzle will test how fast your brain works under pressure. If you can spot the odd animal, you possess sharp visual ...

At the level of molecules and cells, ketamine and dexmedetomidine work very differently, but in the operating room they do ...

Some of the most complex cognitive functions are possible because different sides of your brain control them. Chief among ...

A recent study conducted by scientists at the University of Pittsburgh discovered distinct links between white matter ...

A starry sky can be stunning—even inside a hospital emergency room.

The images are authentic and genuinely ... two c-shaped regions in the brain, one of which is found in each hemisphere. The dilation had caused the fluid-filled areas to become larger than normal.

They used the platform to image an Alzheimer’s brain ... imaging of human brain tissues at multiple resolutions from single synapses to whole brain hemispheres, and we have made that data available,” ...