A new study highlights five key eras of human brain development, and they don’t align with age quite as one might expect.

The new documentary The Thinking Game follows DeepMind founder Demis Hassabis and his ambitious pursuit of artificial general ...

UC Santa Cruz research innovations and academic programs advance brain and mental health.

Neuroscientists at the University of Cambridge have identified five "major epochs" of brain structure over the course of a ...

Researchers around the world are studying how the human brain achieves its extraordinary complexity. A team at the Central ...

JIMMY TOMLIN, The High Point Enterprise, N.C. HIGH POINT — When you hear Sam Hawley’s story — his inspiring journey from a young man facing addictions to a young man fighting a brain tumor to a young ...

Scientists at the California Institute of Technology have uncovered a surprising truth about the speed of human thought: our brains process ideas at a rate of just 10 bits per second. Compared to the ...

Researchers have used a new human reference genome, which includes many duplicated and repeat sequences left out of the original human genome draft, to identify genes that make the human brain ...

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One of the most surprising findings is that the period the scientists refer to as “adolescence” starts around the age of nine ...

"If I needed brain surgery, I think I would want Henry Marsh to come out of retirement to do it," said Carol Midgley in The Times. "What an empath, and what a glorious piece of television." The ...