People have a lot of misconceptions about what the brain's left and right hemispheres do, but one well-known aspect of this division may be even more true than people realize: The brain not only ...

A new MIT review highlights how dividing visual processing between hemispheres supports attention and memory. This ...

There's nothing quite like getting lost in an excellent book (or an article from your favorite science news site).

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Results from Insight, one of the Red Planet's landers, lend credence to that idea, but they also point to a strange feature – the magnetic field seemed to cover only the southern hemisphere, but not ...

Pope Francis died of a cerebral stroke and heart failure, the head of the Vatican’s health department, Dr. Andrea Arcangeli, confirmed Monday, April 21. Francis, who was 88, suffered a stroke ...