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Neuroscientists at the University of Cambridge have identified five "major epochs" of brain structure over the course of a ...
A new study highlights five key eras of human brain development, and they don’t align with age quite as one might expect.
Researchers have used a new human reference genome, which includes many duplicated and repeat sequences left out of the original human genome draft, to identify genes that make the human brain ...
Researchers around the world are studying how the human brain achieves its extraordinary complexity. A team at the Central ...
As prominent artificial intelligence (AI) researchers eye limits to the current phase of the technology, a different approach is gaining attention: using living human brain cells as computational ...
Scientists at the California Institute of Technology have uncovered a surprising truth about the speed of human thought: our brains process ideas at a rate of just 10 bits per second. Compared to the ...
An international study changes the view that exposure to the toxic metal lead is largely a post-industrial phenomenon. The research reveals that our human ancestors were periodically exposed to lead ...