In his new BBC show, Jim Al-Khalili journeys through hundreds of millions of years of brain evolution. Live Science spoke to ...

Memristors, or “memory resistors,” are the leading candidate for replacing synapses in a neuromorphic (brain-like) computer.

A Cambridge researcher’s review suggests the brain’s ancient subcortex may sustain basic awareness, reshaping how science and ...

Researchers discovered that certain human brain cells evolved unusually fast, altering autism-linked gene activity.

Until Homo floresiensis was discovered, scientists assumed that the evolution of the human lineage was defined by bigger and ...

To fill in the full picture of what is happening around us, our brains process attention systematically, taking in general facts first and then narrowing down to specifics.

Tying “fragile” memories to emotional events could help people remember them better in the future, researchers at Boston ...

What gives rise to human consciousness? Are some parts of the brain more important than others? Scientists began tackling ...

This week, researchers identified a key driver of pancreatic cancer spread. Oral bacteria were linked to Parkinson's disease ...

Researchers at the University of Exeter have created a detailed temporal map of chemical changes to DNA through development ...

Researchers who induced strokes in mice and then transplanted human neural stem cells into their brains found that neurons ...

A new study has revealed that TSPO, a protein linked to brain inflammation, rises long before Alzheimer’s symptoms appear.