Google maps the human brain in breathtaking 3D images One neuron (white) connects to over 5,000 axons (blue) from other neurons, via at least that many synapses (green) Google Research & Lichtman ...

"You don't need most of your brain to lead a normal life," is a sentiment that often accompanies a widely shared set of medical images that allegedly show a 44-year-old man who was "missing 90% of ...

"You don't need most of your brain to lead a normal life," is a sentiment that often accompanies a widely shared set of medical images that allegedly show a 44-year-old man who was "missing 90% of ...

Even though the human visual system has sophisticated machinery for processing color, the brain has no problem recognizing objects in black-and-white images. A new study from MIT offers a possible ...

Image shows brain thousands of years old. The deformed brain was found inside a roughly 2,600-year-old decapitated head that was excavated from a waterlogged pit in the U.K. in 2008.

Doctors in China inadvertently took time-series images of parasitic worms actively invading a woman's brain and causing rare and rapidly progressing lesions. The previously healthy 60-year-old ...

The researchers then dissected the mouse brain and doused the cubic millimeter with hardening chemicals. Then they shaved off 28,000 slices from the block of tissue, capturing an image of each one.