Metropolitan Digital

Men's Weekly


.

Brain wrinkles and folds matter – researchers are studying the mechanics of how they form

  • Written by Mir Jalil Razavi, Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Binghamton University, State University of New York
Brain wrinkles and folds matter – researchers are studying the mechanics of how they formBrain folding typically begins at the end of the second trimester of pregnancy and continues after birth.Hiroshi Watanabe/DigitalVision via Getty Images

The human brain has been called the most complex object in the known universe. And with good reason: It has around 86 billion neurons and several hundred thousand miles of axon fibers connecting...

Read more: Brain wrinkles and folds matter – researchers are studying the mechanics of how they form

More Articles ...

  1. Hurricane-force wind gusts in Colorado, dust storms in Kansas, tornadoes in Iowa in December – here's what fueled a day of extreme storms
  2. How effective are vaccines against omicron? An epidemiologist answers 6 questions
  3. What is the Fed taper? An economist explains
  4. COVID-19 vaccines for children: How parents are influenced by misinformation, and how they can counter it
  5. How the Native American population in the US increased 87% says more about whiteness than about demographics
  6. I'm a Black woman and the metaverse scares me – here’s how to make the next iteration of the internet inclusive
  7. Cellphone bans in the workplace are legal and more common among blue-collar jobs – they also might be a safety risk
  8. To tree, or not to tree? How Jewish-Christian families navigate the 'December Dilemma'
  9. How Mrs. Claus embodied 19th-century debates about women's rights
  10. Mourning after mass shootings isn't enough – a sociologist argues that society's messages about masculinity need to change
Metropolitan republishes selected articles from The Conversation USA with permission

Visit The Conversation to see more