Despite lacking a hippocampus entirely—and having diverged from the mammalian lineage roughly 400 million years ago—larval ...

Does string theory—the controversial “theory of everything” from physics—tell us anything about consciousness and the human ...

In a nutshell, string theory is a sprawling realm of theoretical physics that assumes that tiny vibrating strings are the ...

Studies of brain injuries and electrical stimulation seemed to bear this out. Damaging the Broca’s area, for instance, interfered with speech, and stimulating specific tissues could lead to specific ...

The human brain is often compared to a computer, but the latest wave of research shows it is closer to a self-building city, ...

An Indian-origin professor at Harvard University is using a smart, AI-powered system called SmartEM to help scientists map ...

New research indicates that the structural organization of the human brain does not develop in a continuous, linear fashion ...

Researchers documented the activity of neurons that shape directional navigation as bats explored a remote island off the ...

The retirement of West Midlands police chief Craig Guildford is a wake-up call for those of us using artificial intelligence (AI) tools at work and in our personal lives. Guildford lost the confidence ...

When a curious raccoon broke into an Ashland, Virginia, liquor store in December 2025, sampled the stock and passed out on ...