A high-speed “zap-and-freeze” method is giving scientists their clearest view yet of how brain cells send messages. By ...

A large study of brain scans shows that our neural wiring evolves through five major stages from birth to late old age. These ...

Norman Doidge, citing a study by Merzenich and colleagues, found that the brain allocates neurological resources to its most ...

"One Hand Clapping" draws from neuroscience, evolution, philosophy and a rich tapestry of cultural references to examine how ...

Studying brain scans from nearly 4,000 people across the whole spectrum of human life, from newborns to 90-year-olds, a team ...

The actor, who inherited a high-risk gene for Alzheimer’s disease, explores ways to potentially slow down the disease.

For decades, U.S. military pilots, radar operators, and everyday Americans have reported mysterious objects in the skies — sightings often brushed aside, classified, or left unexplained. According to ...

This could support ongoing learning, the researchers said. Scientists just developed a new AI modeled on the human brain — it's outperforming LLMs like ChatGPT at reasoning tasks Switching off AI's ...

In a town on the shores of Lake Geneva sit clumps of living human brain cells for hire. These blobs, about the size of a grain of sand, can receive electrical signals and respond to them — much as ...

In 1975, a skinny Hampshire College kid making his first movie, a documentary about rural life in the early 1800s, hauled his reluctant body from bed before dawn to film reenactors at Old Sturbridge ...