A new study constructs the first 3D single-cell brain atlas of the lamprey, uncovering the 450-million-year-old molecular blueprint of vertebrates.

Deep within the dark caves of northeastern Mexico lives a fish that has spent hundreds of thousands of years adapting to a ...

Scientists tracking blind Mexican cavefish uncover a striking evolutionary reversal where existing brain circuits are rewired via dopamine to flip behavioral responses to light.

Studies in animals and epilepsy patients suggest that spontaneous laughter is regulated by different brain networks than ...

Chinese scientists have recently constructed the first three-dimensional spatial single-cell atlas of the lamprey whole brain ...

A new study has uncovered a fundamental link between brain size and offspring size, helping to solve a long-standing evolutionary puzzle: Why do birds lay such disproportionately large eggs?

What did the very first complex vertebrate brain look like? To find out, scientists turned to an unlikely time traveler: the ...

Scientists studied the remains of a mysterious human relative called Homo naledi found deep in a South African cave and ...

In the book version of “Project Hail Mary,” author Andy Weir, known for grounding his fiction in plausible science, describes ...

What if consciousness isn’t limited to brains like ours? Philosophers Eric Schwitzgebel and Jeremy Pober argue that ...

When Grant Bonnier learned that Pérez Art Museum Miami would be presenting 10 landmark Jean-Michel Basquiat works from the ...