A late-maturing brain filter in the thalamus prunes noisy sensory inputs over time, helping adults ignore distractions and focus, offering a neural basis for growing wisdom.

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WashU researchers have created a model that can seemingly predict a person's symptoms of Alzheimer's within a few years. Reading time 3 minutes Sickness and death are inevitable, but many of us will ...

In the recreation room at Eskaton Village in Carmichael, Bonnie Dale, one of the residents, is trying on a virtual reality (VR) headset. Colorful exercise balls of different sizes line one wall, and ...

Cold weather doesn’t just change the landscape outside—it changes what’s happening inside the body too, especially the heart. For men over 55, winter conditions can quietly turn a routine cardiac ...

GLASGOW, Scotland--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dxcover, a global leader in innovative AI-enabled technologies, today announced the availability of its UKCA 1-approved, blood-based brain cancer early detection ...

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. Preview this article 1 min A law passed last year requiring ...

Conventional benchmarks are becoming less effective at assessing AI performance, but a multi-disciplinary test has set AI systems a fresh challenge. Katherine M. Collins is in the Department of Brain ...

This is a series about the mysteries of internet speak. A fictional offspring of a locust and a hen. Discoveries at sea. A door with an electronic key fob. When something is low-key, but also genuine.

CLEVELAND, Ohio — January is National Soup Month, a fitting time to celebrate one of winter’s most reliable comfort foods. When the weather turns cold and schedules get busy, soup becomes an easy ...

You have “the instincts of an operative, the brains of an analyst: where were you in the mid-90s when I needed you?” spy boss Peter Moira (Brian d’Arcy James) compliments field agent Alexander Hale ...