Published January 7 in the journal Nature, one paper tackled the age-old problem of nature’s construction with a bit of a twist: it suggests that living networks, like our brain, may use some of the ...

A series of scientific findings suggest that life is more resilient, more patient, and more inventive than previously thought ...

The human brain contains billions of connected neurons that collectively support different mental functions, including the ...

Findings could create new opportunities to treat and study neurodegenerative diseasesScientists discovered that sugar ...

The cerebellum, often called the little brain, plays a much bigger role in language processing than once believed. Located at ...

Scientists rebuilt human brain circuits in the lab and discovered that the thalamus acts as a central organizer of cortical wiring. The findings offer new insight into how brain networks form and why ...

How do electrical signals become "about" something? Through purely physical processes, neural networks transform activity ...

For the first time, clumps of human cells called organoids were fully integrated with the brains of rats—and influenced their behavior.

Even given a set of possible quantum states for our cosmos, it's impossible for us to determine which one of them is correct ...

The same strange ingredient that might stitch together spacetime could also be humming inside your head. Physicists and neuroscientists are increasingly flirting with the idea that the universe and ...