Each of these lobes controls specific functions of your body. Your frontal lobe is one of the largest parts of your cortex, which allows you to move your muscles, reason, and engage with others ...

The largest part of the brain is the highly-evolved cerebrum. The topmost portion is divided into two hemispheres, each with four lobes ... and upper body. The brain also contains four ...

The liver is the largest organ inside your body, located just ... and the duodenum (or first part of the small intestine). Some people's liver might not fully develop correctly when they are in the ...

In the blink of an eye, a stroke can rewrite the brain's intricate circuitry, leaving a trail of disrupted functions in its ...

About a third of brain tumors are malignant, which means they: May grow quickly Have irregular borders Easily spread to surrounding tissues and other parts of your body Read on to learn more about ...

The animals were fed small crustaceans that were filled with fluorescent material, researchers said, and they were able to watch the material move from one side of the combined body to the other and ...

Your sex, body weight, and family history ... whenever you have an experience — like a conversation — a part of your brain called the prefrontal lobe stores that information in short-term ...

As the name suggests, FTD affects the frontal lobe and/or temporal lobes of the brain. Signs and symptoms vary, depending on which part of the brain is atrophying ... or legs (often worse on one side ...

Pluto has five moons—“fun-looking space potatoes,” Singer calls them—and its largest is a behemoth. Charon was discovered in ...

You,’ your joys and your sorrows, your memories and ambitions, your sense of personal identity and free will, are in fact no ...

A pair of ctenophores, or comb jellies, can fuse their bodies together, merging their digestive and nervous systems, without ...

The jellyfish-like animals were being held in a saltwater tank when researchers noticed one with an odd body shape ... one side of the lobes of two jellyfish and then placed them together in ...