New research suggests the human brain has five distinct ages, and it may not reach adulthood until a person's early 30s.

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

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

The human brain continues to surprise scientists. From how it learns to the fact that our brains glow, there's a lot we have yet to learn about the inner workings of the human brain. One especially ...

There must be something about the human brain that’s different from the brains of other animals — something that enables humans to plan, imagine the future, solve crossword puzzles, tell sarcastic ...

As prominent artificial intelligence (AI) researchers eye limits to the current phase of the technology, a different approach is gaining attention: using living human brain cells as computational ...

Brain-computer interfaces will play a central role in defining how human intelligence and artificial intelligence fit together.

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

Lab-grown “reductionist replicas” of the human brain are helping scientists understand fetal development and cognitive disorders, including autism. But ethical questions loom. Brain organoids, which ...

Better ways to measure cognitive exhaustion could point to treatments for long COVID and other debilitating disorders.

If this presidential cycle has unified us on anything, it might be that cognitive decline is a hard thing to talk about. Both President Biden and former President Trump face plenty of criticism, ...