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The amount of microplastics in the human brain appears to be increasing over time: Concentrations rose by roughly 50 percent ...

A new Yale study provides a fuller picture of the genetic changes that shaped the evolution of the human brain, and how the ...

The human brain is said to be the most complex object in the known Universe. Its 89 billion neurons each have around 7,000 connections on average, and the physical structure of all those entities ...

Thus Corina becomes one galaxy in an expanding universe of new information on the human brain. "Every person's brain is as unique as their face," says Toga, who directs the Laboratory of Neuro ...

Although the human brain is capable of sifting through a billion bits of information per second, scientists recently found ...

Neuroscientists have identified the physical locations where memories are stored in the brain. But would that enable us to retrieve memories from someone who has died?

Cognitively normal human brain samples collected at autopsy in early 2024 contained more tiny shards of plastic than samples collected eight years prior, according to a new study. Overall ...

scan of the brain revealing blood vessels in the brain. A new study finds microplastics accumulate at higher levels in human brains than in the liver and kidneys. Microplastics, plastic particles ...

A paper published Monday in Nature Medicine found that the tiny fragments of plastic are passing the blood-brain barrier and into human brains, and the amount of microplastics in the brain appears ...

Narrator: The concept of uploading an entire human brain - thoughts, feelings, memories, the whole shebang - and running it on a computer is called whole brain emulation. And there are three main ...