Split image: Left side shows a brain wearing headphones surrounded by colorful musical notes. Right side is an illustration of a person standing at a ship’s wheel on top of a brain, looking through a ...

Some people say that today there are almost no "blank spots" left on our planet - that is, places completely unexplored by humans. And therefore, supposedly, life today has become more boring than, ...

The human body is a walking wonder—packed with secret features, bizarre abilities, and mind-blowing facts that most people have never even heard of.From strange built-in defenses to mysterious inner ...

What unique processes conspire to create a healthy, functional human brain? How can we be so genetically similar to, say, chimpanzees, and yet be light-years more sophisticated cognitively and ...

The human brain continues to surprise scientists. From how it learns to the fact that our brains glow, there's a lot we have yet to learn about the inner workings of the human brain. One especially ...

The brains of humans and other mammals contain a vast array of neuronal and non-neuronal cell types. The human capacity to process information into complex emotions, behaviours and decisions relies on ...

Most people have seen pictures of the brain and know that brain damage can cause a wide range of problems from weak and paralyzed limbs to memory and speech problems, but the rest is a mystery. For ...

Over the past decades, computer scientists have developed numerous artificial intelligence (AI) systems that can process human speech in different languages. The extent to which these models replicate ...

For decades, large stretches of human DNA were dismissed as "junk" and considered to serve no real purpose. In a new study published in Cell Genomics, researchers at Lund University in Sweden show ...