Intelligence Gathering: The Study of How the Brain Evolves Offers Insight into the Mind
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Is there really life out there?  Was a kinder, wetter Mars once dotted by bacterial blooms whose progeny now await our discovery?  Do unseen, alien microbes swim in the buried oceans of Europa, Callisto, or Ganymede?  What about Titan's sub-zero methane lakes?
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There are biological brain differences that mark out psychopaths from other people, scientists say.
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New research provides more evidence that chimpanzee brains are human-like in terms of the links between brain asymmetry, language and right- or left-handedness.
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Neuroscientists use coral and jellyfish DNA to create colorful arrays of neuronal connections in mouse brains.
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In search of the ultimate lie detector, researchers turn to thermal facial scans, brain wiring and eyeball tracking. But deception still, well, deceives. By Randy Dotinga.
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Interpretations of the insanity plea have changed through the ages, but advances in neuroscience promise to redefine free will and personal responsibility, and change the way we think about punishment. By Rowan Hooper.
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An astonishing new technology allows one set of sensory information to substitute for another in the brain.
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Interactive, detailed maps of the human brain and genome will spur new discoveries.
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A new scientific study claims that genes controlling the size and complexity of the brain have evolved more rapidly in humans than they have in any other species - including apes.
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Researchers have unveiled a new way to map the brainâs billions of neurons.
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A person's optimism in the future seems to be controlled by a small front part of the mid-brain, according to a study that used brain imaging.
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Experts pinpoint a brain part that may hold the key to recognising places we have previously been.
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New research shows how a part of the brain helps us recognize fear in other people's facial expressions. The discovery may one day aid people with autism.
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Chasing relative performance leads to a short-term orientation.
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Researchers have found a 'bottleneck' in the brain that appears to explain why we struggle to do two things at once.
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A mechanism in the brain may explain why some people cope better than others in the face of adversity.
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Scientists flock to songbird research, hoping finches and canaries will provide insight into the mysteries of human speech, memory and neuron production. Randy Dotinga reports from the Society for Neuroscience convention in San Diego.