Sound gets in your head and stays there. When the brain processes sound, it actually resonates with it, like a tuning fork that's been struck. You can hear the brain's resonance if you have the ...

The neocortex is the largest and youngest part of the mammalian brain. Human beings’ higher cognitive abilities have long been attributed to the evolution of the neocortex ... breaking science news ...

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A pioneering scientific breakthrough has made it possible to extract proteins from preserved soft tissues, including human ...

In order to quantify the speed of human thought, Caltech’s Jieyu Zheng compared it to the speed of computing. By testing the ...

What would it take to create a cyborg brain like the one in the new TV show Murderbot? The answer reveals what makes our own ...

Subscribe to Technology Networks’ daily newsletter, delivering breaking science news straight to your inbox every ... examined data on the brain structure of 56 mammalian species, including humans, to ...

"Our ancestors' cranial capacity began increasing 2.5 million years ago, which conservatively gives us about a 1-million-year gap in the timeline between brain size increasing and the possible ...

In this week's Hitting the Books excerpt, A Brief History of Intelligence: Evolution, AI ... more is happening in your brain than merely the automatic prediction of words. We have, of course ...

I asked Desimone if he thought that brain scientists of the future might ... be explained in terms of the forces of Darwinian evolution. As our nation and our world have become more polarized ...

In the scheme of things over the course of our lives, the hierarchy of the things that matter change with the passage of time. The Triad of Human Issues of Preeminence are indisputably Food ...