A shrew's brain and other organs can shrink by as much as 30% and then grow back in the spring. Once the brain of a human ...

Mount Sumbing stands high above Central Java’s countryside, where volcanic soil supports generations of stepped farming traditions. Catanduanes under Signal No. 4 as Uwan intensifies This one decision ...

An artificial neuron has been developed that could help scientists to build compact, energy-efficient computers inspired by the human brain 1. Computing systems that mimic biological neural networks ...

The New Scientist Book Club stepped away from science fiction for our October read, turning to the winner of the Royal Society Trivedi Science Book Prize instead, serendipitously announced just in ...

Dive into the shallow seabed where octopuses use their environment — and their brains — to blend in and stay out of danger. Woman found dead in northern NSW home ‘Unseen’: Royal’s tribute to Aus ...

Although you know your teenager takes some chances, it can be a shock to hear about them. One fine May morning not long ago my oldest son, 17 at the time, phoned to tell me that he had just spent a ...

With electrodes imbedded in its cortex, a rat in a research institute in Natal, Brazil sent signals via the internet to a counterpart at a university lab in Durham, North Carolina, helping the second ...