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How Does the Brain Influence Behavior?

How Does the Brain Influence Behavior?

Editors of ScienceNewsTodayAugust 7, 2025August 7, 2025

We wake up, open our eyes, stretch, feel hunger, speak words, remember names, make decisions, fall in love, lose our…

How the Brain Forms Memories: The Story of Who We Are

How the Brain Forms Memories: The Story of Who We Are

Editors of ScienceNewsTodayAugust 7, 2025August 7, 2025

There is a silent narrator inside your head. It remembers your first day at school, your grandmother’s voice, the smell…

The Science of Thought: What Happens When You Think?

The Science of Thought: What Happens When You Think?

Editors of ScienceNewsTodayAugust 7, 2025August 7, 2025

At first glance, thought appears deceptively simple. You see a tree and recognize it. You recall the face of an…

How the Brain Learns: Insights from Neuroscience

How the Brain Learns: Insights from Neuroscience

Editors of ScienceNewsTodayAugust 7, 2025August 7, 2025

Every moment of your life, your brain is learning. Whether you’re reading a book, solving a math problem, recognizing a…

The Left Brain vs. Right Brain Debate: Is It Real?

The Left Brain vs. Right Brain Debate: Is It Real?

Editors of ScienceNewsTodayAugust 7, 2025August 7, 2025

We’ve all heard it. The idea that some of us are “left-brained” — logical, analytical, and detail-oriented — while others…

What Happens in the Brain When You Dream?

What Happens in the Brain When You Dream?

Editors of ScienceNewsTodayAugust 7, 2025August 7, 2025

Every night, as your body lies still in the darkness of sleep, your mind lights up with drama, sensation, color,…

How the Brain Interprets Reality: A Neuroscience Perspective

How the Brain Interprets Reality: A Neuroscience Perspective

Editors of ScienceNewsTodayAugust 7, 2025August 7, 2025

Every second of your waking life—and even while you dream—your brain is weaving an intricate tapestry of reality. But what…

How Does the Brain Process Emotions?

How Does the Brain Process Emotions?

Editors of ScienceNewsTodayAugust 7, 2025August 7, 2025

Every laugh, every tear, every moment of joy, fear, rage, or love—each is born from a miracle hidden inside your…

What Does Each Part of the Brain Do?

What Does Each Part of the Brain Do?

Editors of ScienceNewsTodayAugust 7, 2025August 7, 2025

Imagine holding the universe in your hands—not galaxies and stars, but something infinitely more intimate. It’s pink, wrinkled, and roughly…

How Many Neurons Are in the Human Brain?

How Many Neurons Are in the Human Brain?

Editors of ScienceNewsTodayAugust 7, 2025August 7, 2025

If you were to hold a human brain in your hands—cold, soft, silent—you might not guess that it is the…

What Is the Human Brain Made Of?

What Is the Human Brain Made Of?

Editors of ScienceNewsTodayAugust 7, 2025August 7, 2025

There is a galaxy in your head. A thundering, whispering cosmos—silent to the outside world, yet louder than anything else…

What Is Cancer? Types, Causes, and Treatment Options

What Is Cancer? Types, Causes, and Treatment Options

Editors of ScienceNewsTodayAugust 7, 2025August 7, 2025

Few words in the English language carry the emotional weight of “cancer.” It is a word whispered in hospital corridors,…

Tiny Plastics in Our Brain May Be Awakening Alzheimer’s Across the Body

Tiny Plastics in Our Brain May Be Awakening Alzheimer’s Across the Body

Editors of ScienceNewsTodayAugust 6, 2025August 7, 2025

A new preclinical study has uncovered disturbing evidence that environmental exposure to nanoplastics—microscopic plastic particles invisible to the naked eye—may…

Scientists Discover Fat Cells Can Think for Themselves

Scientists Discover Fat Cells Can Think for Themselves

Editors of ScienceNewsTodayAugust 6, 2025August 7, 2025

In a groundbreaking study that challenges long-held beliefs about how our bodies manage fat, scientists from the University of Birmingham…

Scientists Discover Low Oxygen Might Protect the Brain from Decay

Scientists Discover Low Oxygen Might Protect the Brain from Decay

Editors of ScienceNewsTodayAugust 6, 2025August 7, 2025

In a discovery that reads more like science fiction than laboratory science, researchers at the Broad Institute and Mass General…

Scientists Reignite Aging Brain Cells Using Compounds from Green Tea and Vitamin B3

Scientists Reignite Aging Brain Cells Using Compounds from Green Tea and Vitamin B3

Editors of ScienceNewsTodayAugust 6, 2025August 7, 2025

In a discovery that could mark a turning point in the fight against Alzheimer’s disease, researchers at the University of…

Scientists Discover Bacteria That Can Destroy Cancer Without Help From the Immune System

Scientists Discover Bacteria That Can Destroy Cancer Without Help From the Immune System

Editors of ScienceNewsTodayAugust 5, 2025August 5, 2025

For over a century, scientists have dreamed of using bacteria to fight cancer. The dream began in the 19th century…

Your Body Has a Clock and Eating at the Wrong Time Could Trigger Obesity

Your Body Has a Clock and Eating at the Wrong Time Could Trigger Obesity

Editors of ScienceNewsTodayAugust 5, 2025August 7, 2025

In a groundbreaking study led by researchers from the Complutense University of Madrid, scientists have discovered that when you eat…

Scientists Discover the Hidden Power Inside Neurons That Could Stop Brain Degeneration

Scientists Discover the Hidden Power Inside Neurons That Could Stop Brain Degeneration

Editors of ScienceNewsTodayAugust 5, 2025August 5, 2025

In the complex architecture of the human body, neurons are the crown jewels of our nervous system—highly specialized cells that…

Scientists Silenced Cancer’s Two Deadliest Genes with One Tiny Molecule

Scientists Silenced Cancer’s Two Deadliest Genes with One Tiny Molecule

Editors of ScienceNewsTodayAugust 5, 2025August 5, 2025

In the war against cancer, two of the most notorious enemies have long eluded capture: KRAS and MYC, two genes…

Scientists May Have Just Ended the Age of Injections Forever

Scientists May Have Just Ended the Age of Injections Forever

Editors of ScienceNewsTodayAugust 5, 2025August 5, 2025

For countless patients across the world, daily injections are a painful but unavoidable part of life. From children needing growth…

Scientists Discovered a New Way to Stop Pain Without Addiction

Scientists Discovered a New Way to Stop Pain Without Addiction

Editors of ScienceNewsTodayAugust 5, 2025August 6, 2025

In a world where opioid overdose has claimed more than 80,000 lives in a single year, the discovery of a…

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