Published January 7 in the journal Nature, one paper tackled the age-old problem of nature’s construction with a bit of a twist: it suggests that living networks, like our brain, may use some of the ...

OpenAI, Google, and Moonshot AI are ushering in agentic AI systems that investigate, coordinate, and verify tasks beyond ...

Lifelong plasticity is a core principle of neuroscience, yet it operates within real limits shaped by effort, stress and ...

Ahab hunting down Moby Dick. Wile E. Coyote chasing the Road Runner. Learning Latin. Walking over hot coals. Standing in a ...

Recent analysis of human brain tissue suggests that a small and often overlooked region deep within the brain may play a central role in bipolar disorder. Researchers found that neurons in the ...

For much of the 20th century, scientists believed that the adult human brain was largely fixed. According to this view, the brain developed during ...

A series of scientific findings suggest that life is more resilient, more patient, and more inventive than previously thought ...

A new comprehensive analysis has revealed that major depressive disorder alters both the physical architecture and the ...

A new study adds to the wide body of research connecting chlorpyrifos to neurological effects, such as those experienced with Parkinson's.

The human brain contains billions of connected neurons that collectively support different mental functions, including the ...

New experiments reveal how astrocytes tune neuronal activity to modulate our mental and emotional states. The results suggest ...

Astronomers use the term dark energy to refer to energy in the universe that is unaccounted for by ordinary matter but ...