Researchers around the world are studying how the human brain achieves its extraordinary complexity. A team at the Central ...

One of the most surprising findings is that the period the scientists refer to as “adolescence” starts around the age of nine ...

Scientists have long tried to understand the human brain by comparing it to other primates. Researchers are still trying to understand what makes our brain different from our closest relatives. Our ...

What unique processes conspire to create a healthy, functional human brain? How can we be so genetically similar to, say, chimpanzees, and yet be light-years more sophisticated cognitively and ...

Is it just your imagination, or is artificial intelligence (AI) becoming more like biological brains? Are newer large language models (LLMs) evolving in a way that resembles how human brains function?

"If I needed brain surgery, I think I would want Henry Marsh to come out of retirement to do it," said Carol Midgley in The Times. "What an empath, and what a glorious piece of television." The ...

Scientists at the University of Amsterdam discovered that our brains automatically understand how we can move through different environments—whether it's swimming in a lake or walking a path—without ...