Scientists have created the first reference charts for the human brain, mapping its growth from infancy to 100 years old. Now, they have to grapple with difficult ethical questions about how they ...

Large brains use a lot of energy. Yet brain size has little connection to intelligent problem-solving. Some of the best problem-solvers are birds, who have tiny brains. Do our large brains help us to ...

If terms like "bird brain" and "harebrained" are any indication, animal brains present fascinating and diverse examples of one of the most complex organs known to science. Animal brains differ not ...

Behavior that we’d consider intelligent is oddly widespread in the animal kingdom. Animals with very different brains from ours—a species of octopus and various birds—engage with tools, to give just ...

University of North Carolina-led researchers have used brain connectivity charts built from functional MRI data as a tool for tracking early childhood brain development. Charts mapped the maturation ...