In 2021, a dish of living human brain cells figured out how to play the 1970s arcade game Pong. It took just five minutes for the collection of neurons, called DishBrain, to learn how to move the ...

In his new BBC show, Jim Al-Khalili journeys through hundreds of millions of years of brain evolution. Live Science spoke to ...

Modern humans are evolutionary survivors, thriving generation after generation while our ancient relatives died out. Now, new research into our brain chemistry suggests that an enzyme unique to Homo ...

The potential for these kinds of machines to reshape computer processing, increase energy efficiency, and revolutionize medical testing has scientists excited. But when do we consider these cells to ...

Scientists mapped brain development before birth, revealing DNA changes linked to autism and schizophrenia risk.

Hobbits of Flores evolved to be small by slowing down growth during childhood, new research on teeth and brain size suggests.

Researchers who induced strokes in mice and then transplanted human neural stem cells into their brains found that neurons ...

Elon Musk, Sam Altman, and fellow billionaires are betting big on Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCIs). Here’s why BCIs could ...

Over the past few decades, biomedical researchers and neuroscientists have devised increasingly advanced techniques to study ...