(CN) — Brain charts could allow doctors to compare the size and relative function of individual sections of a person’s brain with those of their peers across every age group, providing clinicians a ...

Anybody who spends time thinking about the cosmos knows what it’s like to have a brain full of black holes (in a good way). But while Sagan-ian daydreaming about the massive regions of spacetime ...

An international team of researchers has created a series of brain charts spanning our entire lifespan -- from a 15 week old fetus to 100 year old adult -- that show how our brains expand rapidly in ...

Can it affect our brain size? Research shows it may. A new study published in Nature Communication, suggests that knowing how the shape of your brain changes over time could be really important for ...

Large brains use a lot of energy. Yet brain size has little connection to intelligent problem-solving. Some of the best problem-solvers are birds, who have tiny brains. Do our large brains help us to ...

A research team has systematically investigated the cognitive abilities of lemurs, which have relatively small brains compared to other primates. Conducting systematic tests with identical methods ...

Behavior that we’d consider intelligent is oddly widespread in the animal kingdom. Animals with very different brains from ours—a species of octopus and various birds—engage with tools, to give just ...