There is no student "brain drain" specific to Northern Ireland, according to experts. Brain drain is a phrase often used to describe the numbers of students who leave Northern Ireland to study and ...

Using their new knowledge, the researchers became the first to successfully coax human stem cells into becoming hindbrain motor nerve cells. Tryfonov / Adobe Stock The brain is an incredible organ, ...

For centuries, scientists have thought of the brain as a single, unified organ. But new research led by Stanford Medicine reveals that what we call the brain is two distinct organs that evolved ...

For decades, many scientists have thought that a single type of starter cell gives rise to the entire brain. But experiments now challenge that fundamental picture, providing evidence that it takes ...

The story many women hear about menopause and the brain goes something like this: oestrogen declines, the brain changes, cognitive symptoms appear, and somehow the organ that has carried you through ...

Use left and right arrow keys to seek audio. Google's fully mapped fruit fly brain is barely a week old, and it's already been put to work doing what any sufficiently advanced piece of neuroscience ...

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A years-long project by HHMI Janelia, Google Research, and collaborators has built the first complete brain map for a male fruit fly, a key model organism in science. For the first time, scientists ...

Some mornings you wake from a vivid dream more tired than when you fell asleep. Sleep is supposed to leave you restored. A new study of sleeping mice reveals an unexpected energy drain during the ...

A single human brain cell may be far more powerful than scientists once realized. Researchers found that cortical neurons can perform remarkably complex computations, giving them capabilities more ...

More college-educated workers move out of Wisconsin each year than move in, leading to what economists call “brain drain.” A new report from the Wisconsin Policy Forum finds that Wisconsin has the ...

Mississippi continues to lose its young, educated workers to other states despite a recent slowdown in overall outmigration. Experts suggest reversing this "brain drain" requires aligning education ...