The institutional clash in Poland between conservative President Karol Nawrocki and Prime Minister Donald Tusk's government over control of the Constitutional Court is escalating. After forcing his ...

In optogenetics, scientists control neurons by stimulating them with light—potentially unlocking breakthroughs for conditions such as dementia, depression and blindness. Three scientists won the Nobel ...

A European research group has built a robot that uses magnets to steer ultra-thin graphene electrodes into the brain. Barcelona’s INBRAIN Neuroelectronics, which leads the clinical work, announced the ...

Data from mouse brains and 13 human brains show a link between levels of a lipid-degrading and cognitive resilience, ...

Why do humans sleep? Researchers who have suggested a variety of reasons. Sleep seems to give your body time to repair itself and your brain a chance to consolidate memories. Spending a significant ...

Even under general anesthesia, the human brain can analyze language, recognize different types of words, and predict what comes next in a story, according to a surprising discovery by Baylor ...

Scientists have discovered a human gene with a remarkable double life: it appears to play an important role in brain cells while still retaining the ability to jump around the genome. Called BC200, ...

Dopamine is the neurotransmitter most often associated with ADHD, but the condition is about far more than a single chemical deficiency or a set of symptoms. “ADHD is not one chemical in the brain. It ...

Over decades of research, scientists have built up a partial picture of what specialized cells within the brain and spinal cord do. By studying how the brain develops, they could identify genes that ...

Hamza Haq serves as a writer for the gaming guides and lists department at GameRant, while dabbling in news coverage on the side. Based in Pakistan, he has been writing professionally about games ...

(Adnkronos) - "The one from 80 years ago is not a closed chapter in our history: there are families who have lost loved ones and there are people injured as children, as well as those injured by ...

Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel win the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their work on optogenetics, which has revolutionized neuroscience. After being on many scientists ...