People with aphantasia have no mental imagery—and they’re offering brain scientists a window into consciousness ...

Understanding how the brain processes what we see is one of the central questions in neuroscience. Our visual system is incredibly powerful, able to ...

Researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz have trained lab-grown brain organoids to solve a goal-directed task, ...

New research shows how psychedelics alter visual processing and boost memory-linked brain circuits to generate hallucinations, revealing mechanisms with therapeutic implications.

Novel study by researchers at the Rambam Health Care Campus could help 21 million people worldwide suffering from the severe lifelong mental disorder The post In breakthrough, Israeli scientists use ...

For Anil Seth, another prominent neuroscientist, consciousness is a “controlled hallucination” because we never experience objective reality, whether externally in the world or within our minds. The ...

Elon Musk has now scheduled the death of human language, which feels efficient. Most civilizations wait for decline to become obvious before declaring ...

Researchers discover that the RNA surveillance system NMD and the protein UPF2 are essential for guiding neuronal migration and forming the brain's layered cortex.

The search space for protein engineering grows exponentially with complexity. A protein of just 100 amino acids has 20100 ...

Snowflake has launched Cortex Code, an AI-based coding agent that aims to extend AI assistance beyond SQL generation and conversational analytics into data and app development tasks. Cortex Code is ...

Keeping high-power particle accelerators at peak performance requires advanced and precise control systems. For example, the primary research machine at the U.S. Department of Energy's Thomas ...