Harvard’s decades-long study and Northwestern’s brain research both point to strong social connections as a key factor in healthy aging and sustained cognitive performance. Northwestern identified ...

A US company has tested a brain implant in four Chinese patients in Shanghai, a rare sign of cooperation as the two countries compete to develop the most advanced neurotechnology.

For decades, smell stood apart from the other senses. Scientists could point to orderly maps in the eye, the ear, and the ...

Scientists have created the first detailed map of smell receptors, revealing the sense of smell is far more organized than ...

Betrayal: Convicted Harvard Scientist Sets Up Lab in China Amid National Security Concerns** A former Harvard professor, Charles Lieber, recently made headlines for reestablishi ...

Crisis** In an alarming development, the U.S. faces a growing national security threat as American scientists defect to China, lured by the promise of unfettered research potent ...

We were told that giving our children laptops, tablets and educational software was progress. As Granby’s chapter leader for ...

In 1950, two researchers noticed something that didn't quite add up. Hector Chevigny, a writer who had lost his sight in ...

Just like vertebrates, cephalopods—such as octopuses and squid—have elaborate brains. Neuroscientists are flocking to them ...