Experts explain whether "brain rot" is real, a sleep scientist shares the best time to set your alarm to avoid hitting snooze ...

Scientists at Weill Cornell Medicine have developed a new algorithm, the Krakencoder, that merges multiple types of brain ...

“You see every wrinkle in the brain stem,” he says. This discovery motivated him to take a closer look. First, Brecht and his team tracked down as many photographs of elephant fetuses as they ...

Elephants have the largest brain of all terrestrial mammals, and has the largest cerebral cortex by volume in the animal kingdom. The elephant brain has almost as many cortical neurons as the ...

John Allman (with colleague Atiya Hakeem at Caltech examining elephant brain specimens) is searching for one of the biological keys to human behavior. Aaron Huey There was little chance of missing ...

However, the cerebellum is proportionally heavier in African elephants (a good 22% of the total brain weight) than in Asian elephants (a good 19%). Elephant brains grow almost as much as human ...

Using an algorithm they call the Krakencoder, researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine are a step closer to unraveling how the ...

BARBER: How elephant seals are helping scientists monitor ... and they're located in this part of our brain called the hypothalamus. But sugar seems to hijack that system in an interesting way.