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 new study examines the evolutionary connection between the fine manipulation of objects and the associated development of ...

To fill in the full picture of what is happening around us, our brains process attention systematically, taking in general ...

Redefining Research: This study shows that a human-based brain organoid model can mimic key brain functions such as ...

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

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

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

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

A terrible accident left construction worker Phineas Gage with serious brain damage. Amazingly, he recovered - forever ...

The findings have the potential to resolve the longstanding "Muddle in the Middle" of human evolution, researchers said.

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