The Noonan lab at Yale University is focused on understanding how HARs contribute to the evolution of uniquely human brain features.

Your brain’s natural rinse cycle flows while you sleep. A new study suggests certain medications interfere with that ...

Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis Medicine Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology have identified specific neuronal cells that are essential to our understanding of other people. Runnan ...

How the brain feels about the world around it is the subject of a new paper published in Proceedings of the National Academy ...

Plastics have infiltrated every recess of the planet, including your lungs, kidneys and other sensitive organs. Scientists ...

Microplastics are accumulating in human brains at alarming rates, with concentrations rising 50% in the past eight years.

The olfactory nerves run from the inside of the nose, through the skull, and then directly into part of the brain called the ...

Researchers at Brown University and Cincinnati Children’s found that suppressing opsin 3 in the brain of mice makes them eat ...

US researchers have examined almost 100 samples from brains and found an unexpectedly high concentration of plastic in them.

A new study suggests that the average human brain may contain a surprising amount of plastic, with the findings raising concerns about the ...