A chronological map of the fetal brain reveals when key cells emerge and provides clues about autism and cancer.

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A pair of new studies have provided fresh evidence in the long-running scientific debate—and the result could be ...

A new study reveals that astrocytes—star-shaped support cells traditionally viewed as passive partners of neurons—play a ...

New research from the University of Wyoming reveals that the brain cells that control hunger may be far more adaptable during ...

A new study suggests AI systems could be a lot more efficient. Researchers were able to shrink an AI vision model to 1/1000th ...

Biotech startup Cortical Labs is working on two small data centers run by human brain cells, putting lab-grown neurons onto silicon in an experiment that could one day challenge chips from the likes ...

All animals, including humans, experience stress. Not the type where you worry about paying bills, but metabolic ...

A dish of living human neurons has been taught to play Doom. No, it isn’t conscious or watching the screen the way players do. But it is learning to respond to signals in a way that produces ...

Humans and many other animals can innately recognize familiar objects in their surroundings, irrespective of the angle they are observed from, changes in lighting or other shifts in the surrounding ...

When you get better at a skill-recognizing a familiar face in a crowd, spotting a typo at a glance, or anticipating the next move in a game-sensory neurons in your brain become more coordinated, ...

(March 10): Biotech start-up Cortical Labs is working on two small data centres run by human brain cells, putting lab-grown neurons onto silicon in an experiment that could one day challenge chips ...