Neuroscientists had a problem. For decades, researchers had a theory about how an animal's brain keeps track of where it is relative to its surroundings without outside cues—like how we know where we ...

Sleep and wake: they’re totally distinct states of being that define the boundaries of our daily lives. For years, scientists have measured the difference between these instinctual brain processes by ...

Life may unfold as a continuous stream, but our memories tell a different story. We do not recall the past as one long, unbroken text. Instead, we remember it as a series of meaningful events, like ...

A gene called ZNRF3, known to be involved in cancer, also messes with the mind. The human brain relies on two copies of this gene to build a right-sized brain. If one of the copies is defective, the ...

Scientists find that small regions of the brain can take micro-naps while the rest of the brain is awake and vice versa The study more generally shows how previously ignored fast brain waves define ...