Every clonal raider ant lives a nearly identical life. Each new generation of these blind, queenless ants is born at the same ...

A new study reveals that the human brain processes spoken language in a sequence that closely mirrors the layered architecture of advanced AI language models.

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

Brain organoids are revolutionising research, but their growing complexity raises unsettling ethical questions.

Our brain and eyes can play tricks on us—not least when it comes to the expanding hole illusion. A new computational model developed by Flinders University experts helps to explain how cells in the ...

BISC is an ultra-thin neural implant that creates a high-bandwidth wireless link between the brain and computers. Its tiny single-chip design packs tens of thousands of electrodes and supports ...

Lynne Peeples is a science journalist in Seattle, Washington. Near the end of his first series of chess matches against IBM’s Deep Blue computer in 1996, the Russian grandmaster Garry Kasparov ...

Study maps five major eras of brain wiring from birth to old age, revealing the key turning points that shape how we learn, ...

New research finds that brain development is not linear. There are distinct phases with unique characteristics.

Microscopic fibers secretly shape how every organ in the body works, yet they’ve been notoriously hard to study—until now. A ...

The race to understand the brain has just crossed a new threshold, with a supercomputer-driven model that behaves less like a ...

Accumulating research and emerging experiences suggest we're witnessing fundamental changes in human psychological ...