Our bodies are home to a vast ecosystem of microbes — the microbiome — that has a powerful effect on the brain.

Concern for humanity guides Fei Fei Li’s human-centered approach to AI.

Watch a discussion about developments in brain science with renowned neuroscientist Eric Kandel and New York Times science writer James Gorman.

Scientists studying olfaction have learned how our sense of smell works and discovered that it might be more sophisticated than previously thought.

Neuroscientist Damien Fair discusses how brain imaging is used to explore ways to better characterize developmental brain disorders like autism and ADHD.

The contents of your dinner plate can have profound effects on your brain and nervous system.

Through complex systems that begin with cells that respond to physical stimuli and send signals through a maze of brain circuits, we can know — both consciously and otherwise — what goes on around us and within our bodies.

In celebration of Women’s History Month, view the profiles of women scientist that explored their curiosity and pushed the field forward.

Patricia Kuhl shares astonishing findings about how babies learn one language over another — by listening to the humans around them and "taking statistics" on the sounds they need to know.

The neuroscientist and inaugural editor-in-chief of BrainFacts.org discusses his life and work in this podcast from People Behind the Science.