The biggest changes happen in brain regions involved with processing sensory information and coordinating movement, according ...

The research has implications for NASA’s goals to build a base on the moon and eventually conduct crewed missions to Mars.

Human brains evolved under the steady pull of gravity, yet modern astronauts are spending months at a time in orbit, where ...

On Monday, Jan. 12, findings published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) revealed that ...

A new study from Karolinska Institutet, published in Nature Communications, reveals how rhythmic brain waves known as alpha ...

Spending time in the weightless environment of microgravity can have some dramatic effects on the human body, but scientists ...

The results revealed that the speed of alpha brain waves in the parietal cortex plays a key role. This region of the brain ...

The way the brain develops can shape us throughout our lives, so neuroscientists are intensely curious about how it happens.

The human brain remains one of the most complex and least understood organs, but recent breakthroughs in genetic research have unveiled startling insights into how genes shape brain structure and ...

Attention can feel like a fragile thing, especially when your brain struggles to sort signal from noise. Every second, your ...

Neuroscientists have been trying to understand how the brain processes visual information for over a century. The development ...