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 ...

Once we are able to pay attention to something, it then gets stored by a structure that’s deep in our temporal lobe called ...

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 ...

Scientists have discovered that the adolescent brain does more than prune old connections. During the teen years, it actively builds dense new clusters of synapses in specific parts of neurons. These ...

Koch, who studied vision, thought that by measuring people's brain responses as they looked at special optical illusions, ...

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 ...

Back when he was a pre-med student in Germany, someone showed Randolph Helfrich a functional magnetic resonance (fMRI) image that would go on to ...

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 ...