The human brain is a fascinating and complex organ that supports numerous sophisticated behaviors and abilities that are ...

Humans possess a remarkable balance between stability and flexibility, enabling them to quickly establish new plans and ...

The human brain has 86 billion neurons connected by roughly 100 trillion synapses, making it one of the most complex objects ...

A selection of science-based books from the year that together shine new light on who we are and why we think and act as we do.

Researchers have used a new human reference genome, which includes many duplicated and repeat sequences left out of the original human genome draft, to identify genes that make the human brain ...

The brain implant is an ultra-thin chip designed to create a fast, wireless link between the human brain and artificial intelligence.

The human mind is turning out to be far stranger and more intricate than the tidy diagrams in old biology textbooks ever suggested. A wave of new research is revealing hidden layers in the brain’s ...

To better understand human cognition, scientists trained a large language model on 10 million psychology experiment questions. It now answers questions much like we do. By Carl Zimmer Companies like ...

Brain organoids can be a good step forward, assuming they are grown from induced human pluripotent stem cells. That allows us to sidestep ethical concerns about the use of human embryos, thereby ...