Learning is fun. No, really! From the crazy way a starfish eats, to the people who worship turkeys, we have a bunch of ...

Brain scans of thousands of people revealed that the human brain has five distinct eras, with turning points in the way it is ...

Some people believe we know everything about such thing as our body, since we study biology at school, read books, and watch ...

Heads up: A lot of what you think you know about your brain is wrong. From sleep scams to multitasking myths, bad advice is steering Americans off course — and it’s messing with their minds. To cut ...

June is Alzheimer’s & Brain Awareness Month — a good time to appreciate the brilliant, quirky, and still mysterious organ inside your head. 1. Your brain cleans itself while you sleep. Yes, really.

While we tend to think we know ourselves pretty well, the human body still has all sorts of ways to surprise us. The truth is that we’re pretty complicated organisms, where a lot can go wrong (or ...

The claim that the brain, and particularly the frontal lobe, finishes developing at 25 is far less solid than social media ...

Your brain gets all the glory while your other nervous system, the Peripheral Nervous System (PNS) toils away in thankless obscurity. What’s the PNS? Oh, merely the neurons that live outside of your ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David DiSalvo writes about science, tech and culture. How many times have we heard the argument repeated, that women and men are ...

Picture two jurors sitting through the same trial. They listen to identical testimony, watch the same videos, and take notes on the same pieces of evidence. Yet by the end of the trial, they are more ...