For years, one of the simplest explanations for human intelligence was also one of the biggest: the human brain has an enormous number of neurons. It also has an even more enormous web of connections ...

Anxiety disorders affect more than 300 million people globally. Several brain regions have been linked to anxiety, but how ...

Anxiety disorders affect more than 300 million people globally. Several brain regions have been linked to anxiety, but how ...

What makes the human brain capable of language, imagination, mathematics and invention? For many years, the prevailing view ...

A new study proves individual human cortical neurons have the computational complexity of an entire deep artificial neural ...

What makes the human brain capable of language, imagination, mathematics and invention? For many years, the prevailing view ...

Researchers have produced the first complete wiring diagram of an adult fruit fly brain, tracing roughly 139,255 neurons and ...

Raising children appears to keep the brain young, potentially acting as a buffer against cognitive decline and Alzheimer’s ...

Have you ever met someone who seems to magically understand what animals are thinking or feeling? They walk into a room and stressed pets immediately calm down, fearful animals approach them without ...

A groundbreaking new connectome maps every neural connection in an adult fruit fly’s central nervous system, creating an unprecedented view of how the brain and body work together. The findings ...

Tom Bowen is a senior editor who loves adventure games and RPGs. He's been playing video games for several decades now and writing about them professionally since 2020. Although he dabbles in news and ...

Neurons, the uber-connected nerve cells that act as a main switchboard for the brain, are central to some incredibly complicated processes. They make it possible to think, walk, speak, and breathe.