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

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.

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

What if your conscious experiences were not just the chatter of neurons, but were connected to the hum of the universe? In a ...

Brain organoids are revolutionising research, but their growing complexity raises unsettling ethical questions.

Robots now see the world with an ease that once belonged only to science fiction. They can recognise objects, navigate ...

BISC is an ultra-thin neural implant that creates a high-bandwidth wireless link between the brain and computers. Its tiny single-chip design packs tens of thousands of electrodes and supports ...

Lynne Peeples is a science journalist in Seattle, Washington. Near the end of his first series of chess matches against IBM’s Deep Blue computer in 1996, the Russian grandmaster Garry Kasparov ...

Study maps five major eras of brain wiring from birth to old age, revealing the key turning points that shape how we learn, ...

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