People who speak several languages may have brains that age more slowly, with four-language speakers showing brains that appeared about 13 years younger than those of monolinguals. Starting earlier ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sections of a brain organoid with different cell types in different colors. Lab-grown "mini brains," called brain organoids, kind ...

What if a tiny sample of your skin could be turned into human brain tissue? Well, scientists have actually been doing versions of this for years. Researchers can take adult human cells and reprogram ...

Lab-grown “mini brains,” called brain organoids, kind of look like navy beans—and have very little in common with a functional human brain. These tiny clumps of neural tissue are grown from stem cells ...

Octopuses are clever enough to unscrew jars from the inside and throw sand at their annoying neighbors. But only a fraction of their smarts come from their doughnut-shaped brains. Over two-thirds of ...

I’m going to let you in on a secret. Every cell in your body has the potential to get smarter. I don’t mean this metaphorically, or in a “body keeps the score” kind of way. I mean that if lab-coated ...