A pair of new studies have provided fresh evidence in the long-running scientific debate—and the result could be ...

Countless YouTube videos feature pet birds singing and talking to their owners. Although it may seem like simple mimicry, ...

Facial expressions arise from brain networks that encode slow, context-rich meaning and fast muscle control on different time scales, keeping smiles and threats socially precise.

Though it is the worst example, In The Blink Of An Eye is not the first preachy live-action sci-fi misfire from a Pixar ...

Doctors often advise exercising your brain to stay sharp but stretching your brain might be the better description.

In Warhead, Nicholas Wright turns the spotlight away from hard power to the human mind. A neuroscientist, who has spent years advising the Pentagon and the government, he argues fear, perception, bias ...

It’s true that the brain slows down as we age, but that’s normal—and all of us can practice some simple strategies to compensate for it.

Biotech startup Cortical Labs is working on two small data centers run by human brain cells, putting lab-grown neurons onto silicon in an experiment that could one day challenge chips from the likes ...

Study maps five major eras of brain wiring from birth to old age, revealing the key turning points that shape how we learn, ...

A new study shows that while humans struggle to identify AI-generated voices, their brains rapidly adapt to detect subtle acoustic differences between real and deepfake speech.

Until now, conventional 3D cell cultures have often been either too rigid or too unstable to realistically reproduce the ...

A single exercise session increased electrical activity in a brain region tied to learning and memory, a first-of-its-kind ...