“We can’t actually build brains,” University of Sussex mathematical physics professor Thomas Nowotny told New Scientist.

Your brain is wrinkled like a walnut, and those wrinkles aren't just for show. Each fold increases the amount of surface area ...

There’s this idea that something happens in the human brain when we turn 25. Suddenly, we can rent a car without fees. Make ...

Neuroscientists are tracking the brain activity that underlies a cognitive breakthrough and unraveling how it might boost ...

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

Consciousness researchers studying “islands of awareness” have found that disconnected brains likely sink into a strange form ...

What happens to the human brain when the force of gravity is removed from the equation? New research is beginning to reveal ...

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 ...

The medical consequences of traumatic brain injuries are well-studied and affect millions of Americans every year. But one of ...

In a new study, researchers discovered that the human brain has four pivotal periods when it goes through marked changes, sparking five "epochs" that last for years. The adolescent phase, for example, ...

Optogenetics has long been a powerful experimental tool, but a growing body of research suggests it may now be approaching a ...