Scientists at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) may have discovered a cause of aging in the brain. The culprit is a protein called ferritin light chain 1 (FTL1), described as an ...

The human brain has long been celebrated as the pinnacle of cognitive evolution, but the animal kingdom harbors remarkable neural architectures that rival our own in complexity and specialization.

Research from scientists at the University of California San Diego School of Medicine has shed new light on an age-old question: what makes the human brain unique? The study is published online in ...

Veronica Paulus is a former STAT intern supported by the Harvard University Institute of Politics. Some octogenarians have exceptionally sharp memories, even sharper than people who are decades ...

“The Daily Show” on Thursday aired a damning montage of correspondent Jordan Klepper’s past exchanges with Donald Trump supporters about late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, the president’s onetime ...

SAN DIEGO — A new study reveals that the COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated brain aging in adults, whether or not they contracted the virus. British researchers found that people's brains aged nearly ...

Living through the COVID-19 pandemic aged our brains faster — even among people who never became sick, according to a recent study. Findings demonstrate how cumulative stressors can affect brain ...

NOTTINGHAM, England — Brain scans from nearly 1,000 British adults reveal the pandemic accelerated aging in the brain by an average of 5.5 months, regardless of whether people contracted COVID-19.

After about age 40, our brains begin to lose a step or two. Each year, our reaction time slows by a few thousandths of a second. We're also less able to recall items on a shopping list. Those changes ...

What if a single click could cost you half a million dollars? For one blockchain developer, this nightmare became a reality when a seemingly harmless coding extension in Cursor IDE turned out to be a ...

The first decision to kick off a greenfield Java project usually sounds breezy: "Let's start with Spring Boot, it's everywhere." A few days in, someone mutters that Quarkus boots faster and saves ...

Neurodevelopmental conditions like autism and ADHD disproportionately affect males, with some estimating boys are four times as likely to be diagnosed as girls. Theories suggest this gender gap may be ...