Anak Krakatau, which lies about 150km from the capital Jakarta, began erupting late on Friday.

What if a tiny sample of your skin could be turned into human brain tissue? Well, scientists have actually been doing versions of this for years. Researchers can take adult human cells and reprogram ...

Lab-grown “mini brains,” called brain organoids, kind of look like navy beans—and have very little in common with a functional human brain. These tiny clumps of neural tissue are grown from stem cells ...

People who speak several languages may have brains that age more slowly, with four-language speakers showing brains that appeared about 13 years younger than those of monolinguals. Starting earlier ...

People have been talking to each other for at least 100,000 years, as best we can tell. And in all that time, there has been only one thing in the world that could learn a human language to perfect ...