If you are dreading the task of spring cleaning, it might help to know the annual tradition can actually be good for your brain. It's a great way to look at cleaning, and knowing the science behind ...

Our unusually large brains are one of the defining features of our species. But there is no evidence that evolution strongly favoured big brains in the past 2 million years of human evolution, ...

For more than a century, neuroscientists have studied the human brain much as early cartographers mapped unknown lands: piecing together a vast landscape from scattered observations. Even today, ...

An international team of scientists has uncovered neural mechanisms used in planning. Its results suggest that an interplay between the brain's prefrontal cortex and hippocampus allows us to imagine ...

Every autumn, mountain chickadees prepare for one of the harshest winters in North America by hiding thousands of individual seeds throughout the forest. Rather than storing food in a single location, ...

A closeup of gray and russet dots of microplastic on a round steel filtration screen. Microplastics on a filtration membrane at RheinMain University of Applied Sciences in 2021. Accurate measurement ...

Brianna Tobritzhofer is a nationally credentialed Registered Dietitian and experienced health writer with over a decade of leadership in nutrition program development, policy compliance, and public ...