Researchers in Japan built a miniature human brain circuit using fused stem-cell–derived organoids, allowing them to watch ...

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

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

"Understanding how spaceflight impacts the human brain is crucial as space exploration and tourism expand," a ...

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

Recent work has revealed some of the many crucial functions of astrocytes, brain cells that were once thought to play primarily supportive roles for neurons. Astrocytes do handle debris around neurons ...

A new study from Northwestern University is reshaping how scientists think about brain evolution. The research suggests that ...

Exercise made 40-year-olds' brains look younger in 12 months, but the biological mystery remains: fitness gains didn't ...

Neuroscientists have been trying to understand how the brain processes visual information for over a century. The development ...

University of Utah researchers at the Pulst-Scoles Laboratory have discovered that reducing levels of the STAUFEN-1 protein ...

Human evolution is often told as a tidy story of adaptation, yet some of our most familiar body parts still defy straightforward explanation. From the jut of the human chin to the curve of the outer ...