“When you go all the way across the head, you’re at such low light levels that simply the color of your skin or thickness of your skull or the hairstyle that you have can make that difference of being ...

Johns Hopkins scientists have created a small lab-grown human brain model with working brain cells and blood vessels. This breakthrough may help study diseases like autism and schizophrenia, and test ...

Mimicking multiple parts of the brain, this miniature mind could help scientists investigate a variety of neuropsychiatric ...

While human head transplantation may seem like a futuristic fantasy, doctors and scientists have been working on the project—and igniting controversy—for more than a century. In 1908, American ...

How a centuries-old math puzzle helped us see inside the human brain. By Steven Strogatz Photo illustrations by Jens Mortensen Each installment of “Math, Revealed” starts with an object ...

In a blacked out room, 20 participants wore head caps studded with electroencephalography (EEG) electrodes to measure the brain’s electrical activity. Photon-amplifying tubes to detect UPEs were ...

Tesla and Space X founder Elon Musk recently announced that a second human has received a Neuralink cybernetic implant. Musk, the founder of the brain-computer company, Neuralink Corp., spoke ...

The human brain is about 60% fat by weight, far more than any other organ. Essential fatty acids, such as omega 3s, are key to the strength and performance of the brain’s cells.

The human brain doesn’t learn, think or recall like an AI. Embrace the difference Brains aren’t computers.