A Levittown student took first place and earned a paid trip to the championship at the University of California, Irvine, in ...

Neuron-powered computer chips can now be easily programmed to play a first-person shooter game, bringing biological computers a step closer to useful applications ...

Getting older is one of the biggest risks for these progressive diseases that degrade functions of the brain, the spine and the nervous system.

Paul I. Yakovlev worked at state institutions for over 25 years, collecting the post-mortem brains of his patients.

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ME. AT MASS GENERAL BRIGHAM RESEARCHERS ARE MAPPING ONE OF THE MOST VAST AND MYSTERIOUS LANDSCAPES KNOWN TO SCIENCE A WORLD OF TRILLIONS OF CONNECTIONS. THE HUMAN BRAIN. WE HAVE MAPPED OUR ENTIRE ...

For decades, researchers have attempted to pinpoint the specific areas of the brain responsible for human intelligence. A new analysis suggests that general intelligence involves the coordination of ...

The evolution of the human species is marked by an increase in brain size. Now new research suggests that could be partly dependent on increases in prenatal estrogen—revealed by looking at the length ...

Javier Milei’s market-absolutist hymn about reining in regulators and not big companies made two incorrect assumptions (By Invitation, January 17th). First, he stated that artificial intelligence will ...

The human brain undergoes an extraordinary transformation before and shortly after birth, yet much of this process has remained difficult to observe. By combining prenatal and postnatal brain imaging, ...

Study: Mapping brain growth and sex differences across prenatal to postnatal development. Image credit: Mapping brain growth and sex differences across prenatal to ...