In an effort to understand how brain cells exchange chemical messages, scientists say they have successfully used a highly ...

According to the study, our ancestors split from a group 1.5 million years ago and rejoined them 300,000 years ago.

New insights have emerged into how the human brain develops. Two genes that are unique to humans work together to influence ...

To build the map, researchers at Columbia University and the University of Bordeaux took a slice of a frozen human brain and, ...

On this episode of Primer, we explore the world of biocomputing, where scientists are blurring the lines between the biological and synthetic.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) can perform complex calculations and analyze data faster than any human, but to do so requires ...

We participate in political memes to express our anxiety that whatever is coming next might be even more chaotic than what is ...

New research finds the brain's language-processing network also responds to artificial languages such as Esperanto and languages made for TV, such as Klingon on 'Star Trek' and High Valyrian and ...

More than 50 cartoon dog Snoopy plushes wearing designer clothes, from Chanel to Hermes and Balenciaga, were on display in ...

but their presence in the human brain is particularly "troubling", wrote Ben Spencer, science editor of The Times. A recent University of New Mexico study, published in the journal Nature Medicine ...

The CL1, a commercial wetware brain in a box. © Cortical Labs photo. Cortical Labs would like to sell you a brain in a box. It’ll cost about $35,000, and you can ...

An Australian startup has unveiled the world’s first commercial biological computer that runs on living human brain cells. Melbourne-based Cortical Labs launched the CL1 at Mobile World Congress ...