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

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

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

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, ...

The last turning point comes around age 83. The data for this final era is more limited, but the defining feature is a shift ...

In 1943, a pair of neuroscientists were trying to describe how the human nervous system works when they accidentally laid the foundation for artificial intelligence. In their mathematical framework ...

Harvard and Google Research have released a startlingly deep dive into the human brain, mapping thousands of cells and millions of synapses in a poppy seed-sized sample of brain tissue. The effort ...

In healthy brains, synaptic vesicles, or message-carrying bubbles within brain cells, help transfer information from cell to ...