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Neuroscience

June 2026

  • Human brain illustration

    Challenges of treating and living with a brain injury

    Letters: Readers respond to an article by Ian Sample on how early intensive rehabilitation after a stroke or head injury is crucial for recovery
  • A man in a navy blue shirt sitting at a table in his garden

    The ideas interview
    The doctor who mends broken brains: why there is room for hope after a stroke or head injury

    The neurologist Orlando Swayne doesn’t suggest everyone can recover. But he does argue that early, targeted and intense therapy can sometimes bring about life-changing improvements – and we have a moral obligation to provide it
  • Young man sleeping in a bed

    Science Weekly
    The incredible science of the sleeping brain – podcast

    Ian Sample talks to Prof Maiken Nedergaard about her groundbreaking work on the brain’s waste-disposal system and how subsequent research is building a picture of sleep as anything but a quiet, inactive state
    Podcast14:53

May 2026

  • Billie Eilish

    Billie Eilish says she does ‘everything I can’ to suppress Tourette syndrome tics

    US singer-songwriter talks about huge effort of controlling her behaviour, in interview with Amy Poehler
  • Human brain scans

    Lacunar strokes caused by widening of arteries in brain, study suggests

    Finding would explain why type of stroke affecting about 35,000 a year in UK is not as responsive to some medication
  • Two magic mushrooms growing with greenery behind

    Single dose of magic mushroom psychedelic can cause anatomical brain changes, study finds

    Participants took 25mg of psilocybin, reporting deeper psychological insight and better wellbeing a month later

April 2026

  • Adidas event in Herzogenaurach with Kenya's Sabastian SaweThe Adidas Adizero Adios Pro Evo 3 trainer is pictured during an Adidas event in Herzogenaurach, Germany, April 28, 2026, days after Kenya's Sabastian Sawe became the first person to run a marathon in under two hours and setting a new world record with a time of 01:59:30 in an official race, accomplishing his feat wearing the brand's Adizero Adios Pro Evo 3 trainers. REUTERS/Louisa Off

    Science Weekly
    Sub-two-hour marathon, spooky houses explained and why is UK health in decline? – podcast

    Podcast19:34
  • Dark empty attic with light rays coming through holes in the roof

    Spooky feelings in old houses may be caused by boiler sounds, study suggests

  • Audience wearing headsets in the University of Bristol's Smart Cinema watching a film

    The cinema lab: brain activity tracked to find secret to creating immersive films

  • An illustration of gut bacteria on the microvilli with of the intestines.

    Gut microbiome can reveal risk of Parkinson’s, scientists say

  • The emotional security secret: how to get healthier, happier and have stronger relationships

  • The big idea
    How to train your brain to see possibility instead of doom

  • Other lives
    Annette Dolphin obituary

  • Scientists identify ‘neural fingerprint’ of psychedelic drugs in the brain

March 2026

  • Illustration of dice and ladybird

    The big idea
    Down on your luck? How behavioural neuroscience could help

  • A cutout of a head with a sky peaking out behind it

    Science Weekly
    What sets human consciousness apart from AI? – podcast

    Podcast21:29
  • Two sets of hands reaching out and clasping each other

    Making sense of it
    double quotation markWe can’t all be heroes but as a species we can become more altruistic – with a bit of practice

    Jackie Bailey
  • Cortical Labs' CL1 biological computer displaying the video game Doom on screen.

    A petri dish of human brain cells is currently playing Doom. Should we be worried?

  • Science Weekly
    Exercise and brain function, hedgehog hearing, and can AI change our minds? – podcast

    Podcast20:03

  • Short films made from brain activity of mice aim to show how they see world

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