The human brain contains roughly 86 billion neurons, and for decades scientists have assumed that these cells are the primary ...

For centuries, people have wondered what separates being awake from being asleep, dreaming, or unconscious. Scientists have ...

Scientists are learning how the brain extracts discrete words from a continuous stream of sounds.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the big picture of artificial intelligence. The brain is unimaginably complex. Google and Harvard recently announced ...

Humans have long wondered when and how we begin to form thoughts. Are we born with a pre-configured brain, or do thought patterns only begin to emerge in response to our sensory experiences of the ...

Sharf holds a CMOS-based microelectrode array chip used to precisely locate the electrical activity of single neurons within millimeter-sized organoid tissue. Humans have long wondered when and how we ...

In this video I walk you through real donated human brains to explore how the nervous system actually looks and works. I point out the spinal cord, branching nerves, and vertebrae, then break down ...

There was a time when silence came naturally. Long train rides meant staring out of the window. Waiting in a queue meant ...

Confocal microscope image of a fruit fly brain. (Louise Cheng) Not every region of your brain is equally susceptible to cancer. Over many decades of treating brain cancer, doctors have noticed ...

If you are craving protein, then your gut may be communicating to your gut. Here is what a new groundbreaking study has to ...

Learn how brain tumor growth may depend not only on cancer-causing mutations, but also on the molecular conditions in ...