You can tell a lot about a teenager’s future just by looking at them. If, after puberty, they are shorter than average, it’s very unlikely they’ll play pro basketball, if they are obese and ...

A new approach using functional MRI, an imaging technique that allows you to see and measure brain activity through changes in blood flow over time, provides new insight into how we describe and study ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." When 2D puzzles are no longer exciting, 3D brain teasers are the way. These handheld puzzles require ...

Your brain is more superficial than we thought. Scientists from the University of Monash in Melbourne, Australia, have found that the shape of your brain could strongly influence how you think, feel ...

Irvine, Calif., Oct. 1, 2025 — A new study led by University of California, Irvine’s Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory researchers found that aging changes the brain’s overall shape ...

You have lots of ways of thinking about space. Some of these ways help you to judge the relative location of things over very large distances. For example, you can easily judge that New York City is ...

What it means to be conscious is more than just a philosophical question. Researchers continue to investigate how conscious experience arises from the electrochemical activity of the human brain. The ...