Scientists from Duke-NUS Medical School and their collaborators have created one of the most comprehensive single cell maps of the developing human brain. The atlas captures nearly every cell type, ...

Vertebrates have extremely different brain sizes: even with the same body size, brain size can vary a hundredfold. As a rule, ...

According to neuroscientist Ben Rein’s new book, Why Brains Need Friends, it comes down to our brains. As he explains in the book, that grey matter in our heads is exquisitely optimized for social ...

The chocolate treat found to improve your memory as soon as you’ve eaten it - Study sheds light on why dark chocolate works ...

In a significant leap forward for neuroscience, researchers at the University of California, Santa Barbara, have successfully ...

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

AI can help humans reach their cognitive “flow state,” says author Mithu Storoni, by balancing challenge and ability.

Scientists have built a prototype neuromorphic computer that thinks like a human brain and is faster than AI at learning new things.

Dancing, sketching, or even playing chess online does more than lift your mood; creative activities may actually help ...

A breakthrough in neuromorphic computing could lower the energy consumption of chips and accelerate progress toward artificial general intelligence (AGI). Researchers from the USC Viterbi School of En ...

Using mathematics, the researchers showed how nearby oscillators — whether in the gut or the brain — can lock onto each other ...

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