Flashes of insight trigger activity in the brain’s hippocampus. This cashew-shaped structure is buried deep within the ...

An international team, led by researchers at the Champalimaud Foundation (CF), has shown—for the first time in a realistic ...

A small segment of human DNA boosts brain size and complexity, revealing both the origins of intelligence and its ...

Brain scans now show that fasting doesn’t just influence how we eat, it reshapes how we think by changing our brains. The practice appears to strengthen regions of the brain involved in focus ...