Despite lacking a hippocampus entirely—and having diverged from the mammalian lineage roughly 400 million years ago—larval ...

A newly identified enzyme appears to control tau production, brain inflammation, and aging. Researchers at the University of ...

The world’s most powerful supercomputers can now run simulations of billions of neurons, and researchers hope such models ...

Can the brain keep working when its architecture changes? Researchers at the University of Geneva (UNIGE) have discovered ...

Does string theory—the controversial “theory of everything” from physics—tell us anything about consciousness and the human ...

Studies of brain injuries and electrical stimulation seemed to bear this out. Damaging the Broca’s area, for instance, interfered with speech, and stimulating specific tissues could lead to specific ...

What makes the human brain different from that of other primates has long been a question. A new study suggests that the answer may be in a surprising twist of evolutionary fate: one of the brain’s ...

Artificial intelligence was built to process data, not to think like us. Yet a growing body of research is finding that the ...

Scientists are developing a "sponge" that can soak up pain signals in the body before they reach the brain, potentially ...

It's been estimated that the human brain contains roughly 100 billion neurons, together completing countless tasks through countless connections. So how do we make sense of the roles each of these ...

For more than a century, neuroscience has treated consciousness as something the brain manufactures, like a factory turning ...