The Science Behind Underground Terror The brain's response to underground spaces involves sophisticated neural networks that ...

Artificial neurons will boost computers by mimicking how the brain processes information, while consuming a fraction of the ...

When you picture a map in your mind, your brain uses different pathways than when you actually look at one. In a study on spatial attention, participants recalled the map of France and judged which ...

Scientists found that ancient lead exposure shaped early human evolution. The toxin may have played a surprising role in the development of modern cognition and language. An international team of ...

Learning new information about the world—like details from a fantasy realm—engages brain regions distinct from those used to ...

The Braingeneers team will to test the ability of brain organoids to solve tasks in real time Artificial intelligence (AI) ...

This week, researchers reported the discovery of four Late Bronze Age stone megastructures likely used for trapping herds of ...

Inside a lab in the picturesque Swiss town of Vevey, a scientist gives tiny clumps of human brain cells the nutrient-rich ...

Some 40 kilometers east of the Tanzanian coast in East Africa lies Latham Island, a rocky, utterly isolated and uninhabited ...

Long before humans built cities or wrote words, our ancestors may have faced a hidden threat that shaped who we became.

Brain-training games are all the rage, but whether they prevent cognitive decline has been debatable. Studies in recent years ...