This artistic musical production explores the profound complexity and beauty of the human brain by blending scientific ...

How do electrical signals become "about" something? Through purely physical processes, neural networks transform activity ...

A Dartmouth study published in Nature Communications reveals that immune cells in the brain use a surprising two-step process ...

Consciousness researchers studying “islands of awareness” have found that disconnected brains likely sink into a strange form ...

Neuroscientists and philosophers have debated this thought experiment for decades as they have tried to understand how the ...

The world’s most powerful supercomputers can now run simulations of billions of neurons, and researchers hope such models ...

Researchers in Japan built a miniature human brain circuit using fused stem-cell–derived organoids, allowing them to watch the thalamus and cortex interact in real time. They found that the thalamus ...

A newly identified lymphatic drainage pathway along the middle meningeal artery reveals how the human brain clears waste. How does the brain clear away waste? This task is handled by the brain’s ...

The neonatal period, which is defined as the first 28 days after birth, is known to be a crucial stage in the development of the human brain. During this stage, the brain is known to grow ...

A new study from the Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute now shows how human stem cell based therapy may help repair damaged brain circuits. The research explains how transplanted cells ...

Neuroscientists are tracking the brain activity that underlies a cognitive breakthrough and unraveling how it might boost ...

The Dispilio tablet is a wooden artefact bearing linear marks, unearthed in 1993 during George Hourmouziadis’s excavations of ...