New research is giving us a clearer picture of the human brain and how it functions.

The human brain contains roughly 86 billion neurons, and for decades scientists have assumed that these cells are the primary ...

HAMILTON: Or languages, if you're multilingual. Nima Mesgarani of Columbia University says Chang's research helps explain how human brains are able to decode speech so quickly and accurately. NIMA ...

For centuries, people have wondered what separates being awake from being asleep, dreaming, or unconscious. Scientists have ...

Learn how lab-grown brains could help scientists reawaken nerve regeneration.

Worcester Polytechnic Institute Assistant Professor Rich Lopez joins us to discuss why human brains aren't programmed for ...

Humans have long wondered when and how we begin to form thoughts. Are we born with a pre-configured brain, or do thought patterns only begin to emerge in response to our sensory experiences of the ...

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 ...

For most of human evolution, the story of the brain seemed to move in one direction. It got bigger. That long rise is still there in the fossil record. But a new analysis argues that the trend did not ...

Confocal microscope image of a fruit fly brain. (Louise Cheng) Not every region of your brain is equally susceptible to cancer. Over many decades of treating brain cancer, doctors have noticed ...

Learn how brain tumor growth may depend not only on cancer-causing mutations, but also on the molecular conditions in ...