Creatine plays a vital role in the body's energy system, but it also points to effects beyond "energy" that help brain and ...

Researchers have crossed a threshold that once belonged squarely to science fiction: they have built working models of brains ...

Even consciousness could reveal its secrets someday with this realistic simulation, researchers hope. It will not only ...

Brain scans of thousands of people revealed that the human brain has five distinct eras, with turning points in the way it is ...

Intermittent fasting has moved far beyond a weight loss trend, with early evidence hinting that time restricted eating may ...

The brain implant is an ultra-thin chip designed to create a fast, wireless link between the human brain and artificial ...

Megan Molteni reports on discoveries from the frontiers of genomic medicine, neuroscience, and reproductive tech. She joined STAT in 2021 after covering health and science at WIRED. You can reach ...

Organoids are bits of neural tissue that model human brain development. Their use in science makes some uneasy, in part because the brain is so closely tied to our sense of self.

How a brain's anatomical structure relates to its function is one of the most important questions in neuroscience. It explores how physical components, such as neurons and their connections, give rise ...

Rutgers researchers found that the distribution of neural timescales across the cortex plays a crucial role in how ...