Scientists revive activity in frozen mouse brains for the first time
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Why our brains tune things out and how to overcome it when you need to
Your brain has a neurological trick for drowning out chaosolaser/Getty Images Recently, I was scrolling…
Maternal Stress Rewires Fetal Brains Along Sex-Specific Lines
The developing mouse brain is a construction site where millions of neurons migrate to final…
The New Scientist Book Club’s verdict on Our Brains, Our Selves: A mix of praise and misgivings
The New Scientist Book Club stepped away from science fiction for our October read, turning…
Men’s Brains Shrink Faster than Women’s. What That Means for Alzheimer’s
October 15, 20253 min readMen’s Brains Shrink Faster than Women’s. What That Means for Alzheimer’sWomen’s…
Babies’ Brains Recognize Foreign Languages They Heard before Birth
October 7, 20253 min readBabies’ Brains Recognize Foreign Languages They Heard before BirthBabies process foreign…
Read an extract from the award-winning Our Brains, Our Selves by neurologist Masud Husain
Marcel Proust, photographed in 1905Photo 12 / Alamy Dawn had crept serenely over the city.…
Why Our Brains, Our Selves won the 2025 Royal Society Trivedi Science Book Prize
The human brain is one of the most complex objects to have ever existedAndriy Onufriyenko/Getty…
Babies’ brains ‘tick’ more slowly than ours, which may help them learn
Babies’ brains operate at a different rhythm to those of adultsGOODLUZ / Alamy When a…
Proof That Adult Brains Make New Neurons Settles Scientific Controversy
Proof That Adult Brains Make New Neurons Settles Scientific ControversyAdult brains grow new neurons, and…