Your ability to notice what matters visually comes from an ancient brain system over 500 million years old.

The world’s most powerful supercomputers can now run simulations of billions of neurons, and researchers hope such models ...

The way the brain develops can shape us throughout our lives, so neuroscientists are intensely curious about how it happens.

Dopamine in the brain influences movement, learning, motivation and sleep. In humans, problems with dopamine are linked to ...

A new study suggests that a little-known region deep in the brain could be crucial for preserving physical strength as we age ...

A large genetic screen has revealed how stem cells transform into brain cells, exposing hundreds of genes that make this ...

Does string theory—the controversial “theory of everything” from physics—tell us anything about consciousness and the human ...

We know the genes, but not their functions—to resolve this long-standing bottleneck in microbial research, a joint research ...