Scientists have created a computer model that aims to mimic the human brain, hoping it might teach us about ourselves.

Brain scans of thousands of people revealed that the human brain has five distinct eras, with turning points in the way it is ...

By directly communicating with the brain, a new wireless device could someday help restore lost senses or manage pain without medications, its developers say.

Researchers are no longer just simulating brains in silicon, they are wiring living human neurons into machines and asking them to compute. Tiny clusters of brain cells, grown from stem cells and ...

Scientists are building experimental computers from living human brain cells and testing how they learn and adapt.

In the well-known thought experiment known as the prisoner's dilemma, one individual has to decide whether to stay silent or talk to the police about their crime based on how they anticipate an ...

Researchers at the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience have become the first to fully characterize cell activity from a little relay station in the center of the human brain. This aids our ...

More than a decade after the first Neanderthal genome was sequenced, scientists are still working to understand how ...