Scientists have digitally reconstructed the face of a 1.5-million-year-old Homo erectus fossil from Ethiopia, uncovering an ...

Humanity has long been captivated by the idea of immortality, a desire to defy aging and death. While myths and literature ...

An international research team, including scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, ...

Rather than thinking that adolescence ends at 18, groundbreaking brain research has shown that critical brain developmental ...

As Gov.-elect Abigail Spanberger prepares to take the helm of the state of Virginia, she has announced her pick for the next secretary of health and human resources: Marvin Figueroa. A veteran senior ...

New research has charted the major developmental stages in the brain’s wiring—from early-life pruning to late-life network breakdown—offering a new roadmap for how our brains evolve. Colored diffusion ...

Summary: Researchers identified five major phases of human brain wiring that unfold from birth to old age, marked by four major turning points at ages 9, 32, 66, and 83. Childhood and adolescence are ...

Neuroscientists at the University of Cambridge have identified five "major epochs" of brain structure over the course of a human life, as our brains rewire to support different ways of thinking while ...

The brain evolves through five dramatic wiring eras that shape how we think, grow, and age. Credit: Shutterstock The human brain appears to move through five distinct structural eras, each separated ...

Our brain function is far from static throughout our lives. We already know that our capacity to learn, and our risk of cognitive decline, varies from when we are a newborn through to our 90s. Now, ...

A representative MRI tractography image of the first era of the human brain. This image is representative of the general pattern seen across the brains in the study during the first era of neural ...