Scientists have created a computer model that aims to mimic the human brain, hoping it might teach us about ourselves.

Brain scans of thousands of people revealed that the human brain has five distinct eras, with turning points in the way it is ...

Researchers at the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience have become the first to fully characterize cell activity from a little relay station in the center of the human brain. This aids our ...

More than a decade after the first Neanderthal genome was sequenced, scientists are still working to understand how ...

What if your conscious experiences were not just the chatter of neurons, but were connected to the hum of the universe? In a ...

It was once believed that mice had relatively poor vision. Turns out mice are far from blind – and studying how their vision ...

Curiosity-driven experiments in a basement eventually sparked a worldwide rethink of how stress, addiction, and life experiences shape the brain.

A radically miniaturized brain implant called BISC is redefining what’s possible in human–computer interaction, offering a ...

Scientists exploring how the brain responds to stress discovered molecular changes that can influence behavior long after an ...

A new study led by cognitive neuroscientists at the University of Colorado Boulder and the Max Planck Institute for Human ...

Consciousness evolved in stages, starting with basic survival responses like pain and alarm, then expanding into focused awareness and self-reflection. These layers help organisms avoid danger, learn ...