As the human brain takes shape before birth, a remarkable type of stem cell helps give it many of the features that make it ...

The human brain actively keeps "learning" in balance by holding on to what matters and letting go of what does not. Researchers in Korea have now reproduced this ability in a semiconductor device, ...

UCLA researchers have discovered two powerful influences that help guide how the human brain forms before birth. Radial glia, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the big picture of artificial intelligence. The brain is unimaginably complex. Google and Harvard recently announced ...

The potential to create personalised digital “twins” of your brain and body is a hot topic in neuroscience and medicine today. These computer models are designed to simulate how parts of your brain ...