Challenging a long-standing assumption regarding the adult brain, recent research has demonstrated that individuals can ...

Using single-cell RNA sequencing and genetic screening, the researchers identified key surface proteins that mediate ...

Brain growth and maturation doesn't progress in a linear, stepwise fashion. Instead, it's a dynamic, choreographed sequence ...

Studying the brain in ways that have never been done before. Women across all industries need more female mentors and role ...

They’re growing miniature 3D brains from stem cells. These aren’t your fictional mad scientists’ brains in a vat; they’re ...

Learning to code doesn’t require new brain systems—it builds on the ones we already use for logic and reasoning.

Computer programming powers modern society and enabled the AI revolution, but little is known about how our brains learn this ...

Microcephaly is a congenital malformation that leads to a significantly reduced brain size and is often accompanied by developmental delay.

Spaceflight rewires the human body. Muscles shrink, bones thin and fluids shift towards the brain – but these changes may ...

Mothers who had COVID during pregnancy are more likely to have children with developmental disorders, including autism, by ...

The head of one of the largest artificial intelligence start-ups in the world has warned against the development of AI ...

In the new study, researchers demonstrated that the human brain falls asleep abruptly, rather than gradually, with a "tipping point" marking the transition from wakefulness into sleep. They were then ...