A computer model developed by researchers from Japan and Seattle's Allen Institute could lead to new methods for studying ...

Researchers have created one of the most detailed virtual mouse cortex simulations ever achieved by combining massive ...

Harnessing the muscle of one of the world's fastest supercomputers, researchers have built one of the largest and most ...

All starting from the same DNA, neurons ultimately take on individual characteristics in the brain and body. Differences in ...

Neuroscientists studying the shifts between sleep and awareness are finding many liminal states, which could help explain the ...

I was thirty-seven the first time it really scared me. I was telling a story to friends, mid-sentence, full confidence, when the word just… disappeared. Not a fancy word, either. A basic, everyday ...

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Robots that can sense and respond to the world like humans may soon be a reality as scientists have created an artificial ...

Why is it so easy to hear individual words in your native language, but in a foreign language they run together in one long ...

The gene editing tool known as CRISPR-Cas9 is changing what's possible for treating a wide range of diseases caused by ...

After you close your eyes, there is actually a certain point that brain activity falls off sharply, plunging until it reaches ...