Octopuses are unlike almost any other animal. With 8 arms, 9 brains, and over 500 million neurons, they can solve problems, escape through tiny spaces, and change color in seconds. Their soft bodies ...

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, ...

Tekken 8 releases January 26 for PS5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC via Steam. The latest in a long line of fighting games from Bandai Namco Studios, this eighth mainline installment includes new game modes ...

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 ...

Only Slate Plus members can gift Slate stories. Become a member to share 10 free articles a month. Even some young people now regard age 25 as a turning point with seemingly magical properties. In one ...

Space messes with astronauts' brains – and that might be a big challenge for missions beyond the Moon. With four billion or so years of evolution behind us, humans are well suited to life at normal ...