Human intelligence cannot be explained by the size of the brain's frontal lobes, say researchers. Research into the comparative size of the frontal lobes in humans and other species has determined ...

The cerebral cortex is your brain’s outermost layer. It has a wrinkled appearance due to the grooves and folds that increase its surface area. Here, we look at the anatomy of the cerebral cortex and ...

At one point, Oakland resident Coleton Tidwell could fit a golf ball through the hole in his earlobe. Tidwell, now 21, was among those who purposely stretched their earlobes with plugs or disc ...

Brain evolution The commonly-held belief that human brain evolution was driven by large frontal lobes is a myth, an anthropological study has found. The study, published today in the Proceedings of ...

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The human brain, as the seat of mental life—from the most complicated intellectual processes down to routine and unconscious bodily control—is necessarily enormously complex. The largest part of the ...

When we think about an episode of our life, whether having coffee with a friend last week or our trip to Europe last year, we may re-experience blowing on that steaming mug of cappuccino or glimpsing ...

MINNEAPOLIS — Landon Rochat-Boeser has decided it’s time to grow up. Soon, the 24-year-old is going to have plastic surgery to repair the earlobes that he has spent 10 years stretching through the ...

The lung consists of five lobes. The left lung has a superior and inferior lobe, while the right lung has superior, middle, and inferior lobes. Thin walls of tissue called fissures separate the ...