brain

It continually receives information from other brain regions, but it does more than simply collect those signals.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 20, 2026

It receives signals from throughout the brain, determines which information is most important, and helps coordinate the appropriate response.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 20, 2026

Historical brain teasers: Do you know which pharaoh the Great Pyramid of Giza was constructed for?

From Slate ● Aug. 19, 2026

A spinal injury, traumatic brain injury or other serious medical claim is different.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026

It isn't until 1800 that an Austrian doctor named Franz Josef Gall declares that the brain is the seat of the intelligence, the emotions, and the will.

From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman

Unlike the brains inside our heads, these organoids do not have a body that can get sick and die.

From Barron's ● Aug. 19, 2026

Music is embedded in our brains and in our bodies, expressed with every rhythmic breath and step we take, each time we clap our hands, stomp our feet, beat our chests, whistle, hum or sing.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026

To follow the repair process, the researchers used two-photon microscopy to observe the brains of living mice in real time for several weeks.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 12, 2026

Meanwhile, stock-picking fund managers are apparently throwing in the towel, because using your brains to pick good stocks at reasonable prices can’t compete with simple momentum — in other words, with just following the crowd.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 12, 2026

“She’ll listen to you. She says you have the brains of the family—you and William. Of course...”

From "Carry On, Mr. Bowditch" by Jean Lee Latham

They found that the larger brained primate species did not solve the fruit-finding puzzle more efficiently than smaller brained mammals.

From Science Daily ● May 28, 2024

Clevinger, his long hair brained into pigtails, allowed three runs, two earned, and six hits in 4 1/3 innings while striking out six and walking two.

From Seattle Times ● May 10, 2022

At least there’s nothing pointy on the Steam Deck, unlike some of the book corners I’ve brained myself with over the years.

From The Verge ● Mar. 29, 2022

A second major find, the nearly complete skull of a larger brained hominid, long known simply by its field number “1470” and now classified as H. rudolfensis, bolstered that point.

From Science Magazine ● Jan. 2, 2022

Raizel and I scooted out of the way to avoid being brained by one.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros

We are a long way here from Thor developing the wheel or the Fat Broad braining the Snake.

From Time Magazine Archive

That is the Tessino, braining itself in cataracts.

From Bohemian Days Three American Tales by George Alfred Townsend

The second was a deep gully, but so choked with rubble that after nearly braining myself I desisted.

From Prester John by John Buchan

It was something that they prevented the mace of chivalry from utterly braining humankind.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 097, January, 1876 by Various

At times, an invisible finger tapped at the panes; it was some bird of the night, drawn by the light, braining itself against the glass….

From Letters from my Windmill by Alphonse Daudet