Searching for alien languages sheds light on how much human languages have in common—with each other and even with animal ...

Are we alone? From Trump’s push to release UFO files to new NASA missions, interest in alien life is back in the spotlight.

I have spent maybe 25 years or so wondering if this moment of nightmare fuel from my childhood was a dream. Guess what? It ...

What would alien life from another planet be like? But we rarely ask the opposite: What would they think of us?

This creature doesn’t think the way we do—because it doesn’t have just one brain. With 9 brains and 3 hearts, it can process ...

A 'money hungry' private maternity industry has sprung up in recent years, taking advantage of anxious mothers facing the ...

We’re drowning out our thoughts with overstimulating distractions, and it’s affecting our ability to think. But can quiet ...

There’s a virus you may have never heard of before that is estimated to infect up to 90 percent of people and lurks quietly in your cells for life—but if it becomes activated, it will destroy your ...

Topographic maps of the brain show the spatial representation of activity. The topographic maps shown highlight the density distributions of sleep-like (slow wave) activity across the scalp for the ...

Elaine Pinggal from Monash University, and colleagues assessed how sleep-like brain activity in awake adults influences sustained attention during a task. The researchers compared sleep-like brain ...

Usually, we’re telling the kids to get off the phones and tablets, and that too much screen time can turn their brains to mush. However, using tech could actually help brain health in older adults.