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

The brain constantly blends split-second reactions with slower, more thoughtful processing, and new research shows how it ...

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

Researchers at the Jülich Research Centre in Germany are working on a simulation at the scale of the entire human brain.

How the human brain organizes its visual memories through precise neural timing has been discovered. Researchers at the University of Southern California (USC; CA, USA) have made a significant ...

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

A pioneering study provides new evidence that gut microbes vary across primate species and can shape physiology in ways ...

The world has changed since 1664, when French philosopher and scientist Rene Descartes first claimed the brain was responsible for the sensation of pain. However, a key question remains: How exactly ...

Artificial intelligence systems designed to physically emulate natural brains can simulate human brain activity before being trained, according to new research from Johns Hopkins University. “The work ...

You can see it coming in right there, that little spot,” says neuroscientist and engineer Laura Lewis. A remarkably bright pulsing dot has appeared on the monitor in front of us. We are watching, in ...

A study offers a glimpse of how the brain turns experience into emotion. In mice and humans, puffs of air to the eye caused persistent changes in brain activity, suggesting an emotional response. Get ...