Emiliano Bruner and Tim Schuurman, of the Paleoneurobiology of Hominins Group at the Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana (CENIEH), have just published a paper in the Journal of ...

Large animals face a constant battle against physics: they generate a lot of body heat that can be difficult to dump. For a dinosaur with a head as large and heavily insulated by bone and keratin as ...

The skull base is a complex region that provides critical support for the brain and serves as a nexus for vital neurovascular structures. Its intricate bony architecture encompasses components such as ...

Going to space is harsh on the human body, and as a new study from our research team finds, the brain shifts upward and ...

Alzheimer's, stroke, multiple sclerosis and other neurological diseases cause severe damage due to neuroinflammation mediated by immune cells. Managing this inflammation poses a significant medical ...

Going to space is harsh on the human body, and as a new study from our research team finds, the brain shifts upward and backward and deforms inside the skull after spaceflight. The extent of these ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) The extent of these changes was greater for those who spent longer in space. As NASA ...