In his new BBC show, Jim Al-Khalili journeys through hundreds of millions of years of brain evolution. Live Science spoke to ...

Challenging a long-standing assumption regarding the adult brain, recent research has demonstrated that individuals can continue to develop new brain cells into old age. Researchers at Sweden’s ...

Modern humans are evolutionary survivors, thriving generation after generation while our ancient relatives died out. Now, new research into our brain chemistry suggests that an enzyme unique to Homo ...

Funded by the Alzheimer's Society, a group of scientists are racing against time to track the changes in the brain that leads ...

Yet science has a track record of turning theoretical possibilities into reality. Just because a concept seems terribly, ...

A team at University of Massachusetts Amherst developed artificial neurons that fire in the same voltage range as living cells. Silicon and biology can now speak the same electrical language.

Recently, Nvidia founder Jensen Huang, whose company builds the chips powering today’s most advanced artificial intelligence systems, remarked: “The thing that’s really, really quite amazing is the ...

Researchers have built a 3D human blood-brain barrier in the lab and discovered a key role of brain pericytes in cerebral ...

Flipping the switch on fewer than 500 neurons dramatically reduces the alcohol consumption of mice. This novel finding could lead to new targets for therapeutics. The brain might have a hidden "off ...

Recently, a neurotech company called Paradromics made headlines by successfully implanting its brain-computer interface (BCI) in a human for the first time. The procedure happened at the University of ...

A decade after her fatal prognosis, Grace Wethor is “miraculously” living with brain cancer — and has become an author, speaker and advocate Olga Onate/Getty Grace Wethor was just 13 when she was told ...