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The Interactive Brain from the Traumatic Brain Injury: The Journey Home guides you through the anatomy of the brain, how it works, and what different parts of the brain do.

A structure that allows sound information to be processed extremely fast has been identified in bats' brains. Researchers were able to analyse the echo-locating animals' neurones as they caught ...

This diagram compares the classic view of a bird brain as defined by German naturalist Ludwig Edinger, who did the first studies of bird brain anatomy in the 19th century, to the current view of ...

When most of us think "fireworks," we think of brilliant bursts of light and color we've seen paint a night sky. But such bursts are merely the spectacular end of fireworks that likely took ...

Integration of postmortem molecular and dendritic spine morphological measurements enables the detection of microscale molecules associated with person-to-person variability in macroscale brain ...

The Whip-Poor-Will’s shrill, death-proclaiming song populates the works of Stephen King and H.P. Lovecraft. But the bird itself has fallen on hard times. Could it become a ghost of Halloweens past?

Today, we're presenting you with a delightful brain teaser: a bus filled with children, where a baseball bat is cleverly hidden somewhere in the scene. Can you find the hidden baseball bat in this ...

To understand what each part of your vagina does, WH is supplying you with some handy diagrams. It's a common misconception that the visible outer parts of the female anatomy is called the vagina.

Vampire bats in Peru sometimes prey on penguin chicks, but the adult penguins are ready to fight back—with a little help from dirt and even poop. Vampire bat (Desmodus rotundus) in flight.