For 150 years, Broca's area has defined speech production. Now scientists have discovered a second parallel system that ...

Scientists from Duke-NUS Medical School and their collaborators have created one of the most comprehensive single cell maps of the developing human brain. The atlas captures nearly every cell type, ...

Scientists from Duke-NUS Medical School and their collaborators have created one of the most comprehensive single cell maps of the developing human brain. The atlas captures nearly every cell type, ...

Think you see the world as it is? Think again. The brain’s shortcuts make us efficient—but also deeply biased.

A breakthrough in neuromorphic computing could lower the energy consumption of chips and accelerate progress toward artificial general intelligence (AGI). Researchers from the USC Viterbi School of En ...

According to neuroscientist Ben Rein’s new book, Why Brains Need Friends, it comes down to our brains. As he explains in the book, that grey matter in our heads is exquisitely optimized for social ...

AI can help humans reach their cognitive “flow state,” says author Mithu Storoni, by balancing challenge and ability.

Specially engineered 'young' immune cells could help to reverse the effects of aging and the damage to brain cells caused by ...

The machine-learning programs that underpin their ability to “see” still have blind spots—but not for much longer ...

A giraffe's long legs aren't just for height, they save energy by reducing how hard the heart works to pump blood upward ...

When two of the most powerful people in the world enthusiastically discuss how science is on the verge of finding the secret ...

As an individual facing today’s wars and geopolitical complexity—witnessing so much suffering—I often feel powerless and sad; ...