A late-maturing brain filter in the thalamus prunes noisy sensory inputs over time, helping adults ignore distractions and focus, offering a neural basis for growing wisdom.

That viral claim that your frontal lobe “isn’t fully developed until 25” turns out to be more myth than milestone. Early brain scans showed that gray matter changes dramatically through the teen years ...

Peptide conjugation techniques are advancing CNS delivery of oligonucleotides, addressing blood-brain barrier challenges and ...

Exercise may sharpen the mind by repairing the brain’s protective shield. Researchers found that physical activity prompts the liver to release an enzyme that removes a harmful protein causing the ...

While Elon Musk’s Neuralink likes to say it’s “pioneering” brain-computer interfaces (BCIs), China’s BCI industry is already quietly moving from research to scale. A new wave of startups is racing to ...

Being an expert birdwatcher is more than a hobby. It’s a pastime that may alter the structure and function of your brain. And these changes may enhance cognition even as you age, new research suggests ...

If you don’t know the term “brain rot” by now, congratulations! You probably don’t have it. It’s slang to describe the idea that being “very online” is harming our brains. It also describes the ...

Bob Odenkirk must be enjoying his late-career pivot to action movies. Again teaming with Derek Kolstad, the creator of John Wick and Nobody, Odenkirk returns to the way of the gun in Normal, a ...

Back in 1907, American biologist Henry Van Peters Wilson discovered that sponges will re-form into living creatures after their cells are broken apart through a fine mesh screen — demonstrating that ...

Nate Broughty thought he was overtired or perhaps sick with the flu when he suddenly fainted one morning last fall. Known as “Nate The Lawyer” online, the attorney usually gets up early to maintain ...

The brain’s sewerage system — a network of large veins embedded in a membrane close to the skull — does not contain passive vessels as it was once thought. The delicate brain is protected from ...

Bob Odenkirk is pretty much always just a regular guy who can’t catch a break. It’s his bread and butter. This morning, Magnolia Pictures released a thrilling new trailer for Normal, the Nobody ...