A new study published in PLoS Biology has found that learning a new motor skill sets off two different types of cellular ...

The human brain continuously makes predictions about future events. This process helps humans process familiar stimuli while ...

The term "brain detox" has become increasingly popular on social media and wellness platforms, with many products and ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Human brains may have shrunk about 3,000 years ago as collective intelligence grew, researchers suggest. (CREDIT: Wikimedia / CC ...

In the new study, experiments with mice and with human cells revealed human-specific duplicates of SRGAP2 cause human microglia to take four to eight years to mature. In contrast, mouse microglia take ...

This is a summary of a story published by the Duke School of Medicine. Duke researcher Debra Silver is convinced that to get meaningful answers about the brain, she needs to come at it in three ...

When you're listening to a familiar language, you hear individual words, but what if the language is unfamiliar? UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #1: (Speaking Japanese). SUMMERS: Unless you speak Japanese, that ...

Subatomic particles do it. Now the observation that groups of brain cells seem to have their own version of quantum entanglement, or “spooky action at a distance”, could help explain how our minds ...

Protest is everywhere nowadays, from the revolution in Nepal to Italians shutting down their country for days on end and, of course, people here in the United States protecting their communities in ...

Why do some children with autism communicate more easily than others, even when they hear the same words? Researchers from the University of Virginia believe the answer may lie in the brain's ...