The human brain accounts for roughly 2% of total body weight but uses approximately 20% of our body's energy. Relative to our ...

Mice with transplanted human brain organoids improved their gait and maze abilities. The resulting cells suggest new ways to ...

How did the human brain become so much larger than that of our closest evolutionary relatives? Part of the answer lies not in ...

Neuroscientists have made a major advance in modeling the human brain in mice, offering a new way to study conditions like cerebral palsy. Ethicists ask if it changes how these mice should be treated.

Millions of years ago, a virus infected the ancestors of chimpanzees and left behind a genetic souvenir. Humans never ...

What Bruner calls “braking,” the Yale neuroscientist Amy Arnsten calls “regulation”—specifically, calcium regulation, which ...

A new hypothesis links the brain’s crossed wiring to ancient visual maps, proposing that later sensory and motor pathways built on an inherited arrangement.

Researchers at the University of Wisconsin–Madison have built a cross-species atlas of gene regulatory networks governing ...

Scientists have long tried to understand the human brain by comparing it to other primates. Researchers are still trying to understand what makes our brain different from our closest relatives. Our ...

Scientists have discovered why common marmosets have unusually small, smooth brains despite starting development much like ...

During fetal development, the human brain generates an excess of neurons, most of which are eliminated shortly before and after birth.

IntroductionRecently, while studying AWS, I had a strange thought. Couldn't we upload the human brain to AWS? Store brain ...