Brain scans of thousands of people revealed that the human brain has five distinct eras, with turning points in the way it is ...

Scientists have created a computer model that aims to mimic the human brain, hoping it might teach us about ourselves.

Scientists are building experimental computers from living human brain cells and testing how they learn and adapt.

Researchers are no longer just simulating brains in silicon, they are wiring living human neurons into machines and asking ...

Researchers at the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience have become the first to fully characterize cell activity from a little relay station in the center of the human brain. This aids our ...

Curiosity-driven experiments in a basement eventually sparked a worldwide rethink of how stress, addiction, and life experiences shape the brain.

Another piece of the dementia puzzle may finally have been found. In A Nutshell Scientists discovered ultrathin tubes (hundreds of nanometers wide) connecting brain cells that transport proteins and ...

More than a decade after the first Neanderthal genome was sequenced, scientists are still working to understand how ...

This year is the centennial of the discovery of human brain waves. Few people know the story of that startling finding, because the true story was suppressed and lost to history. Almost two decades ...