Do you remember Dr. Lewis Thomas, the renowned physician-writer? Back in the 1970s, Dr. Thomas wrote an elegant book of essays, The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher, in which he poetically ...

The brain is the “control center” of the body. Together with the spinal cord, it makes up the central nervous system. Various parts of the brain are responsible for movement, breathing, and other ...

More than 2,300 years ago Aristotle famously wrote that we are more than the sum of our parts. This nugget of wisdom still resonates today, for at least one simple reason: connections. In the past two ...

The human brain is a fascinating and complex organ that supports numerous sophisticated behaviors and abilities that are ...

YOU may not realise it, but your brain is home to an army of invaders. Riding in on blood vessels and nerve fibres during your first months in the womb, these amorphous creatures colonised every part ...