It's difficult to know what birds "think" when they fly, but scientists in Australia and Canada are getting some remarkable ...

A new study recently published in Psychophysiology has used machine learning to identify brain structures and networks associated with small animal phobia. The findings reveal distinct gray matter ...

The first brain-like mass of neurons likely evolved at the front end of a long, thin, worm-like animal. “Everything else that descended from that is a descendent of that neural structure, we think.” ...

When military personnel fire certain powerful weapons, they may be exposed to blast waves that damage blood vessels in the ...

Scientists use digital skull scans to reveal bird brain structures, intelligence, and evolution without actual brains.

they injected either cyanobacteria or green algae into Xenopus laevis tadpoles and deprived the animals of oxygen, causing brain activity to cease. Exposing the animals to light, which allowed the ...

A study of nearly 10,000 adolescents has identified distinct differences in the brain structures of those who used substances before age 15 compared to those who did not. Many of these structural ...

Nocturnal animals tend to have proportionally ... which is connected to the brain by the optic nerve. The retina is an extremely complex structure. It's made up of at least 10 distinguishable ...