The podcast Chasing Life With Dr. Sanjay Gupta explores the medical science behind some of life’s mysteries big and small.

What would it take to create a cyborg brain like the one in the new TV show Murderbot? The answer reveals what makes our own ...

Whenever something bad happens to us, brain systems responsible for mediating emotions kick in to prevent it from happening again. When we get stung by a wasp, the association between pain and wasps ...

New research suggests that microplastics are contributing to a global rise in rates of depression and dementia.

The smallest grooves on the brain's surface, unique to humans, have largely been ignored by anatomists, but recent studies show that they're related to cognitive performance, including face ...

A new analysis suggests that a diet high in ultraprocessed foods may lead microplastics to accumulate in the brain, which may ...

Large language models such as GPT, Llama, Claude, and DeepSeek can be so fluent that people feel it as a “you,” and it ...

Scientists have identified molecules from blood and urine that may reveal how much energy a person consumes from ...

"I already go out of my way to avoid single-use plastic." Scientists uncover alarming substance hidden in human brain samples ...