Our brains need to adapt quickly to meet the challenges of our digital world, but a rigorous new book by a neuroscientist ...

What unique processes conspire to create a healthy, functional human brain? How can we be so genetically similar to, say, chimpanzees, and yet be light-years more sophisticated cognitively and ...

The human brain continues to surprise scientists. From how it learns to the fact that our brains glow, there's a lot we have yet to learn about the inner workings of the human brain. One especially ...

Older adults who remain cognitively sharp as they age have a genetic advantage over their peers, new research shows. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and ...

Researchers are no longer just simulating brains in silicon, they are wiring living human neurons into machines and asking them to compute. Tiny clusters of brain cells, grown from stem cells and ...