Like humans, animals can become stressed when trying to lead a group of peers in a particular direction, a new study from The ...

A 500-million-year-old sea creature called Mollisonia shared a similar brain structure to modern spiders, suggesting that ...

The tiny 'backward' brain of an ancient sea creature hints that spider ancestors might have gotten their start in the ocean.

Researchers have identified two genes from the human genome’s “dark matter” that influence brain size and synaptic signaling.

What makes the human brain distinctive? A new study published July 21 in Cell identifies two genes linked to human brain features and provides a road map to discover many more. The research could lead ...