For nearly a century, scientists have known that different parts of the human brain's cortex control different body movements. This fundamental discovery dates to the 1930s, when neurosurgeons used ...

Researchers from the University of New Hampshire looked at the developmental process of the cerebral cortex—the outermost ...

For nearly a century, scientists have known that different parts of the human brain's cortex control different body movements. This fundamental discovery dates to the 1930s, when neurosurgeons used ...

A rare form of dark-colored organic glass, discovered inside the skull of a victim from the 79 CE Mount Vesuvius eruption, likely formed when an intense but short-lived ash cloud superheated the ...

Fast-evolving DNA gives human neurons greater complexity than chimps, aiding cognition but also increasing disease risk. A ...

This atlas combines single-cell transcriptomic, epigenomic and spatial transcriptomic characterization of more than 32 million cells across all parts of ... As the human brain contains around ...

Hello readers. For all the talk of artificial intelligence, the most efficient computer on Earth remains the human brain. It can perform the same number of operations per second as the world’s ...