Microplastics have been found in our lungs, guts, and even our blood. Now, researchers say they may reduce protective enzymes ...

The researchers treated mouse serum with microplastics to form the microplastics that absorbed proteins, according to a ...

A French civil servant functioned normally with 90 percent of his brain missing. How is this possible? Research reveals ...

Twelve laboratories around the world have joined forces to map neuronal activity in a mouse’s brain as it makes decisions.

The vagus nerve functions as a communication channel that links the brain to the gut system. The brain receives chemical ...

Y ou can see it coming in right there, that little spot,” says neuroscientist and engineer Laura Lewis. A remarkably bright pulsing dot has appeared on the monitor in front of us. We are watching, in ...

But researchers were concerned about whether this procedure might have other, less desirable effects. What happens when the right and left sides of the cerebral cortex—responsible for an enormous ...

For all of human history, death has been viewed as a final cessation of life in an organism, but new research is offering hope for restoration.