The mummified brain of a well-preserved woolly mammoth found in the Siberian permafrost is the only mostly intact mammoth brain known to science, which has been described in a new study. The mummified carcass of the 39,000-year-old woolly mammoth, which included the brain with folds and blood

As people age, they typically show some decline in cognitive abilities, including learning and remembering such things as the names of new acquaintances or where one parked the car or placed one’s keys. This normal age-related memory decline starts in early adulthood but usually does not have any

It’s not such a stretch to think that humans can catch the Ebola virus from monkeys and the flu virus from pigs. After all, they are all mammals with fundamentally similar physiologies. But now researchers have discovered that even a virus found in the lowly algae can make mammals its home. The

Patients with severe brain damage who are in a persistent vegetative state could be aware of their surroundings, scientists claim. Researchers say that have found a 'fingerprint of consciousness' in these patients using a simple test based on measuring patterns of brainwaves. The discovery could

University of Sussex researchers said: 'Simultaneously using mobile phones, laptops and other media devices could be changing the structure of our brains.' Worryingly, the part of the brain that shrinks is involved in processing emotion. The finding follows research which has linked multi-tasking