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

Neuroscientists have been trying to understand how the human brain supports numerous advanced capabilities for centuries. The ...

Rutgers researchers found that the distribution of neural timescales across the cortex plays a crucial role in how ...

The 'silent' X chromosome within female brains may not be so silent after all. A new study has found evidence in both mice and humans that as we age, 'sleeping' X chromosomes can be 'awakened' in ...

Scientists have created a computer model that aims to mimic the human brain, hoping it might teach us about ourselves.

New research suggests the human brain has five distinct ages, and it may not reach adulthood until a person's early 30s.

Murderbot, the titular character of a new television show on Apple TV+, doesn’t do much murdering. Instead it enjoys the freedom of having hacked its governor module, the internal control system that ...

Another piece of the dementia puzzle may finally have been found. In A Nutshell Scientists discovered ultrathin tubes (hundreds of nanometers wide) connecting brain cells that transport proteins and ...

Researchers at the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience have become the first to fully characterize cell activity from a little relay station in the center of the human brain. This aids our ...

The human brain processes spoken language in a step-by-step sequence that closely matches how large language models transform text.