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

There's a quiet irony at the center of modern neuroscience. The more precisely researchers can peer inside the brain, with ...

The human brain's soft folds and ridges, arising in early development and continuing through the first 18 months of life, are a visual icon for intelligence itself. Peeling back the layers of this ...

A new study from UC San Francisco shows how certain cells in the brain may cause aneurysms to weaken and rupture. It helps ...

Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine have uncovered a fundamental principle underlying how the human brain processes ...

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

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 ...

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