A painful memory washes over you, and you faint. The game gives you a fake game-over screen where you talk to your Ancient Reptilian Brain. This happens all because you read a note that your "ex ...

Over time, some of those dinosaurs sprouted feathers and took to the skies—and while their reptilian cousins died off, those ancient avians survived to ... offering clues to the brain it once ...

The enduring scientific interest in the brain is highlighted by the donation of Charles Babbage’s brain in 1871. Babbage’s ...

An ancient brain circuit, which enables the eyes to reflexively rotate up as the body tilts down, tunes itself early in life as an animal develops, a new study finds.

This 1,600-year-old skull has revealed that ancient Greeks performed complicated brain surgery. "The surgical operation is ...

Renowned sports and performance psychologist Lloyd Bemelman told IOL that there are structures in the brain that get overtaken in the heat of the moment. He refers to it as a “hijacking of the ...

The three-dimensional shape of a protein can be used to resolve deep, ancient evolutionary relationships in the tree of life, according to a new study. It is the first time researchers use data from ...

More than a dozen ancient gold tongues have been discovered in a cemetery at the site of Oxyrhynchus in Egypt. Archaeologists in Egypt have discovered 13 ancient mummies with gold tongues and ...

The ancient Egyptians celebrated the new year in a variety of ways, including having feasts, giving gifts, and exposing statues of gods to sunlight so they could be "regenerated." When you ...