That viral claim that your frontal lobe “isn’t fully developed until 25” turns out to be more myth than milestone. Early ...

New research suggests that super-agers generate twice as many neurons as typical older adults. But you don't have to be a ...

Your brain begins as a single cell. When all is said and done, it will house an incredibly complex and powerful network of some 170 billion cells. How does it organize itself along the way? Cold ...

Adults whose brains still have strong neuron production seem to have better memory and cognitive function than do those in whom the ability wanes, finds a study published today in Nature. The authors ...

Olena Bilozerska and her husband always knew they wanted children. She was 34 and they were ready to start trying when the war erupted in eastern Ukraine in 2014. The couple joined the fight and ...

A woman adopted as a toddler by an American war veteran, who he found in the 1970s in an Iranian orphanage and raised as a ...

In ‘body-first’ Parkinson’s disease, misfolded proteins propagate from the gut’s nervous system to the brain. Immune-cell activity seems to play a key part in this spread. The disease is diagnosed ...

Emissions have plunged 75% since communist times in the birthplace of big oil – but for some the transition has been brutal Once the frozen fields outside Bucharest have thawed, workers will assemble ...

The human brain has grown throughout evolution, and researchers have long sought to understand why. A new peer-reviewed study from Swansea University, published in Early Human Development, indicates ...

On February 3, 2026, President Trump signed into law the Mikaela Naylon Give Kids A Chance Act as part of the Consolidated Appropriations Act (CAA) of 2026. The CAA codifies FDA's interpretation of ...