The human brain's soft folds and ridges, arising in early development and continuing through the first 18 months of life, are ...

Scientists rebuilt human brain circuits in the lab and discovered that the thalamus acts as a central organizer of cortical wiring. The findings offer new insight into how brain networks form and why ...

The brain’s hemispheres are specialized for efficiency. Modern neuroscience shows lateralization enhances function without ...

The human brain contains billions of connected neurons that collectively support different mental functions, including the ...

Modern neuroscience understands the brain as a set of specialized systems. Aspects of brain function such as attention, ...

Scientists studying how people understand speech have uncovered evidence that challenges long-standing ideas about language ...

Scientists have discovered that the human brain understands spoken language in a way that closely resembles how advanced AI language models work. By tracking brain activity as people listened to a ...

A representative MRI tractography image of the first era of the human brain. This image is representative of the general pattern seen across the brains in the study during the first era of neural ...

Recently, Nvidia founder Jensen Huang, whose company builds the chips powering today’s most advanced artificial intelligence systems, remarked: “The thing that’s really, really quite amazing is the ...

As AI and brain technology advance, scientists warn understanding of consciousness and awareness is lagging behind, raising ...

Humans are strange—and science knows it. For all our advances in medicine, neuroscience, and psychology, there are still parts of our behavior and biology that leave experts scratching their heads.

When a curious raccoon broke into an Ashland, Virginia, liquor store in December 2025, sampled the stock and passed out on the bathroom floor, the story went viral within minutes. The local animal ...