If you've ever wondered whether we actually use all of the brain or not, science shows that we do use all of the brain, but most people don't use it to its fullest power. Recently, Dr Emily McDonald, ...

Why don’t we remember specific events during those crucial first few years, when our brains worked overtime to learn so much? A new Yale study finds evidence that we do form memories, but can’t ...

Tristan Yates has no doubt about her first memory, even if it is a little fuzzy. "I was about three and a half in Callaway Gardens in Georgia," she recalls, "just running around with my twin sister ...

You're back in school and suddenly have to take a test, despite not having been present to learn any of the material. Your teeth are suddenly falling out. You run into an acquaintance you haven't seen ...

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A new study finds that brain changes are not a steady progression; instead, distinct neural rewiring occurs around ages 9, 32 ...

See the world through the lens of science. Sign up for our free, daily newsletter Today in Science. A plume of red, a searing pain and the sounds of summer—these are fragments of my earliest memory, ...

Our brains are amazing machines,but there is still a whole lot we don’t know about how they work. One esoteric aspect of brain function is dreaming and while we’re still not 100% on how or why we ...

Imagine a master chef preparing for the dinner rush. Before the first customer arrives, they are already chopping vegetables based on yesterday’s orders, preheating ovens for the most popular dishes, ...

Brain aging may have sped up during the pandemic, even in people who didn’t get sick from Covid, a new study suggests. Using brain scans from a very large database, British researchers determined that ...