Read these 11 fun facts and you’ll know why: 1. The body has billions of nerve cells Every person’s body contains billions of nerve cells (neurons). There are about 100 billion in the brain ...

The ancient Egyptians thought so little of brain matter they made a practice of scooping it out through the nose of a dead leader before packing the skull with cloth before burial. They believed ...

A new study finds that microplastics and nanoplastics accumulate at higher levels in the brain than in the liver and kidney.

There, those reflected wavelengths are transformed into electrical signals to be interpreted by our brain. So we don’t really “see” colour, but reflected light, as interpreted in our brain.