The Victorian paleontologist Richard Owen incorrectly argued that the human brain was the only brain to contain a small area ...

Researchers have created the largest and most detailed wiring diagram of a mammalian brain to date, by mapping cells in a ...

Scientists achieved “a milestone” by charting the activity and structure of 200,000 cells in a mouse brain and their 523 ...

That’s partly because most scientists who physically get right inside skulls to study the brains inside them do so with the brains of non-human animals, so most brain research we hear about ...

Having a brain is so necessary to human experience that it’s almost impossible to imagine ... Scientists home in on the brain’s evolutionary origins by sorting out the animals without brains. Sponges ...

Scientists say the map of a speck of a mouse's brain could be as transformative as the Human Genome Project. Here's what to know.

Information gathered in just one cubic millimeter of a rodent’s cerebral cortex will help unravel the complex neural networks ...

and which the researchers believe will hold true across animal species including humans, is newly published in Nature. "Looking at a tiny part of the brain in a mouse, we can understand how the ...

and we can makes predictions about how the human brain might work." "We are interested in the idea that humans and other animals may know things about the world, things that they choose not to show," ...