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 ...

Children learn long before they speak in full sentences. They watch faces, shoulders, hands, and pauses. A sigh after work, a ...

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Working with neuroscientist Suzana Herculano-Houzel, my laboratory at the University of Richmond has found that raccoons pack an astonishing number of neurons – an amount comparable to primates – into ...

The human brain must be able to link memory content to the circumstances in which it occurs. Researchers in Bonn have now discovered how the human brain uses two different groups of neurons to store ...

UMass Amherst engineers have built an artificial neuron powered by bacterial protein nanowires that functions like a real one, but at extremely low voltage. This allows for seamless communication with ...

In 2024, Paramount Pictures released Better Man, a musical biopic about the life and career of British singer Robbie Williams. The film was like most other entries in that oversaturated genre, except ...

Teasing “Avatar: Fire and Ash” in a recent interview with Linsey Davis on “ABC News Live Prime,” filmmaker James Cameron said that “this one especially” of the three films holds a mirror to the human ...

Something about a warm, flickering campfire draws in modern humans. Where did that uniquely human impulse come from? How did our ancestors learn to make fire? How long have they been making it?

Humans are far closer to meerkats and beavers for levels of exclusive mating than we are to most of our primate cousins, according to a new University of Cambridge study that includes a table ranking ...

Given how excited audiences have been for Zootopia 2, it’s not a surprise that the film garnered two Golden Globe nominations this morning – one for Best Motion Picture – Animated, and the other for ...

Mirror Neurons are a cluster of cells in our brains that fire both when you take an action, but also when you see someone else take an action. These cells give us an accelerated ability to learn, and ...