Researchers uncovered how shifting levels of a brain protein called KCC2 can reshape the way cues become linked with rewards, ...

A year of new treatments, new technologies, new ways to stay safe during disasters and new insights on the mysteries of the ...

Every clonal raider ant lives a nearly identical life. Each new generation of these blind, queenless ants is born at the same ...

Researchers say they’ve uncovered new evidence in present-day England that could reshape our understanding of human evolution ...

Synaptic plasticity—the brain's ability to modify the connections between neurons to support learning—is one of the neural ...

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

A new study reveals that the human brain processes spoken language in a sequence that closely mirrors the layered architecture of advanced AI language models. Using electrocorticography data from ...

An international team led by the University of Michigan has introduced new methods that reveal which regions of the brain were active throughout the day with single-cell resolution.

The researcher has published a new book that unpacks the inner workings of the ancestral neural GPS that allows us to locate ...

A new study led by cognitive neuroscientists at the University of Colorado Boulder and the Max Planck Institute for Human ...

One approach my group is exploring is giving robots a degree of “local intelligence” in their sensorised bodies. Humans ...

A team of scientists led by the British Museum have unearthed the earliest known evidence of fire making, dating back over ...