What makes the human brain so unique? A clue might come from a recent study that reports the discovery of new brain cells: novel neurons ...

When people think of pyramids, Egypt usually comes to mind. Yet the largest pyramid on Earth isn’t in Egypt at all. Hidden beneath jungle and vegetation for centuries, this massive structure was long ...

Cultivated meat has been promised as a solution to the climate impacts of the meat industry for over a decade. The industry ...

A research team from Mannheim, Göttingen, Varna, and Princeton has discovered in animal studies with mice that the growth ...

India’s renewable energy (RE) sector is likely to attract $350 billion investments over five years, with major expansion ...

Excerpted with permission from the publisher The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer (Revised Edition, 2026), Siddhartha Mukherjee, published by Fourth Estate, HarperCollins India.

A growing body of brain-imaging research has mapped, with increasing precision, how the Amazonian psychedelic brew ayahuasca ...

Psychedelics appear to reshape how the brain builds reality by dampening incoming visual signals and boosting internal memory networks.

In the cerebral cortex, extrinsic and intrinsic excitatory glutamatergic pathways terminate on principal glutamatergic neurons and local inhibitory GABAergic interneurons. Activation of these pathways ...

Mr. Prescott is the author of “Food Is the Solution: What to Eat to Save the World.” Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the secretary of health and human services, has spent much of his public life warning ...

The mammalian brain is known to produce mental representations of the spatial environment, known as cognitive maps, that help humans and animals navigate their surroundings. A subpopulation of neurons ...

Abstract: A mixed-order divergence-conforming method for pyramidal cells is presented for use with a locally corrected Nyström discretization of a volume integral equation. The function space is ...