All day long, our brains carry out complicated and energy-intensive tasks such as remembering, solving problems, and making decisions.

In a new Nature Physics paper, researchers report the first experimental observation of the transverse Thomson effect, a key thermoelectric phenomenon that has eluded scientists since it was predicted ...

The brain is one of the body’s most energy-demanding organs, accounting for 2 percent of the body’s weight but consuming 20 ...

A new study from UC San Francisco challenges the traditional view of how the brain strings sounds together to form words and ...