Navigating a busy street, a new city, or even your own home requires more than just memory of landmarks. Deep inside your brain, specialized networks act like a compass, constantly recalibrating so ...

Researchers reveal how modeling the human brain’s hidden wiring could push AI beyond its current limits into human-like cognition.

What makes the human brain distinctive? A new study published July 21 in Cell identifies two genes linked to human brain features and provides a road map to discover many more. The research could lead ...

The brain is mission control of the human body and the nervous system.

02-28-2023 NEWS ‘Organoid intelligence’ could make human computers that are way smarter than AI Their brainchild is a tiny, lab-grown human brain.

Health Diseases New human brain atlas is the most detailed one we’ve seen yet The catalog of 3,000 cell types could be a game-changer for personalized medicine and animal models. Jocelyn Solis ...

Scientists have long tried to understand the human brain by comparing it to other primates. Researchers are still trying to understand what makes our brain different from our closest relatives ...

For decades, large stretches of human DNA were dismissed as "junk" and considered to serve no real purpose. In a new study ...

Biological puzzles abound in an up-close look at a human brain Never-before-seen details may eventually lead to a better understanding of how the brain works ...

The brain is the most complex organ in the human body. It produces our every thought, action, memory, feeling and experience of the world. This jelly-like mass of tissue, weighing in at around 1.4 ...