A team led by Professor Ed X. Wu and Dr. Alex T. L. Leong has achieved a major breakthrough in understanding how the brain ...

Scientists have known for more than a century that a single-celled organism with no nerve cells—much less a brain—can behave ...

If you look at a Neanderthal skull and a Homo sapiens skull, they’re visibly different: Neanderthal skulls are lower and longer, whereas ours tend to be rounder. However, those differences probably ...

Neurons that fire together, wire together” is not the full story. A novel mechanism explains how the brain can learn across ...

The Human Organ Atlas gives an extremely detailed look at 56 human organs, scanned with the help of a particle accelerator.

Does free will exist? Neuroscientist Uri Maoz devises experiments to illuminate how—or if—the brain makes decisions.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the big picture of artificial intelligence. The brain is unimaginably complex. Google and Harvard recently announced ...

Authors: Jillian Graham, B.S., and Scott M. Hayes, Ph.D. Human brain. Source: Shawn Day/Unsplash As we age, our brains change, usually becoming smaller due to cell death and degeneration. This can ...

A decade ago in Davos, I spoke on a panel with Dr. Aki Hintsa, an orthopedic and trauma surgeon who was coaching Formula One drivers on brain health and performance. He was also working with Dr. Tommy ...

The potential to create personalised digital “twins” of your brain and body is a hot topic in neuroscience and medicine today. These computer models are designed to simulate how parts of your brain ...

Explore how Neuralink brain chips and ongoing Neuralink trials are advancing brain-computer interface technology, enabling thought control, digital communication, and groundbreaking medical ...

In February Cortical Labs, an Australian startup, announced that a programmer had taught one of its “biological computers”—made of 200,000 human brain cells mounted on a silicon chip—to play “Doom”, a ...