In his new BBC show, Jim Al-Khalili journeys through hundreds of millions of years of brain evolution. Live Science spoke to ...

Scientists have discovered specialized IC-encoder neurons that make the brain “see” illusions, such as squares or triangles that aren’t truly there.

You probably have a general understanding of the human brain: a network of nerve cells connected by synapses. Complex or abstract ideas emerge as a result of the firing of many of these nerve cells, ...

Neurons' ability to change their behavior in response to new stimuli is what makes learning possible. And even neurons' ...

As artificial intelligence is pitted against the brain, Jim Al-Khalili, broadcaster and professor of theoretical physics, ...

Researchers found a powerful protein that helps strengthen the messaging system of the brain. The discovery could lead to new ...

How we focus our attention before we even see an object matters. For example, when we look for something moving in the sky, our expectation would be very different if the object is a bird flying past ...

Researchers who induced strokes in mice and then transplanted human neural stem cells into their brains found that neurons ...

The neuron-based system, CL1, is based on DishBrain, an experimental platform by Australian startup Cortical Labs that utilizes a multi-electrode array (MEA) to embed living neurons into a virtual ...

After nine months in the womb, humans enter a world filled with texture and shape. We must then quickly learn to recognize ...

Overactivation may be the hidden driver of Parkinson’s. Researchers showed that when dopamine neurons work overtime, they burn out, break down, and die — echoing the same pattern seen in patients.

At clinically relevant exposures, turning that switch down in the brain was required for metformin to lower glucose, and tiny ...