The human brain and universe display similar complexity, with roughly 86 billion neurons compared to 100 billion stars per ...

Researchers around the world are studying how the human brain achieves its extraordinary complexity. A team at the Central ...

Human brains go through five distinct phases of life, each defined by its own set of characteristics, according to a new ...

"One Hand Clapping" draws from neuroscience, evolution, philosophy and a rich tapestry of cultural references to examine how ...

A large study of brain scans shows that our neural wiring evolves through five major stages from birth to late old age. These ...

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

New studies reveal the brain's shifting architecture at different ages, breastfeeding-driven cancer immunity, and a cosmic ...

“Some part of our being knows this is where we came from,” says Carl Sagan at one point during his epic cosmology-narrating documentary, Cosmos. “We long to return. And we can. Because the cosmos is ...

Stephanie Sheir received funding from the EPSRC (grant number EP/V026518/1). Timo Istace receives funding from Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek Vlaanderen. Nicholas J. Kelley does not work for, ...

Harnessing the muscle of one of the world's fastest supercomputers, researchers have built one of the largest and most detailed biophysically realistic brain simulations of an animal ever.