Scientists have discovered that the human brain understands spoken language in a way that closely resembles how advanced AI ...

A pioneering study provides new evidence that gut microbes vary across primate species and can shape physiology in ways ...

Researchers say the innovation, known as SmartEM, will speed scanning sevenfold and open the field of connectomics to a ...

The world’s most powerful supercomputers can now run simulations of billions of neurons, and researchers hope such models ...

The medical consequences of traumatic brain injuries are well-studied and affect millions of Americans every year. But one of ...

Researchers in Japan built a miniature human brain circuit using fused stem-cell–derived organoids, allowing them to watch ...

A new study from Northwestern University is reshaping how scientists think about brain evolution. The research suggests that ...

Machines have come a long way in seeing and understanding images, but they still don’t see quite like humans do. A new development in artificial intelligence (AI), however, may bring us closer to that ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Neuroscientists have produced the largest wiring diagram and functional map of a mammalian brain to date using tissue from a part of a mouse's cerebral cortex involved in vision, ...

Megan Molteni reports on discoveries from the frontiers of genomic medicine, neuroscience, and reproductive tech. She joined STAT in 2021 after covering health and science at WIRED. You can reach ...

The common shrew looks unremarkable, a few grams of fur and teeth scurrying under leaf litter. Yet this tiny mammal performs one of the strangest tricks in biology, shrinking its own brain and skull ...