The Great Apes are humanity’s closest relatives. They look like us, walk like us, raise children like us, and can use tools like us. But do they think like us too? A major difference between apes (e.g ...

In this photo combo Bruce Springsteen ... A song written about the 1999 police killing of unarmed Guinean immigrant Amadou Diallo, who was standing in front of his apartment building in the Bronx when ...

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scan of the brain revealing blood vessels in the brain. A new study finds microplastics accumulate at higher levels in human brains than in the liver and kidneys. Microplastics, plastic particles ...

The human brain, often hailed as nature’s most powerful computer, is surprisingly slow when it comes to handling information. While our senses gather a mountain of data every second, our actual ...

A high-stakes technology race is playing out in the human brain. Brain-computer interfaces are already letting people with paralysis control computers and communicate their needs, and will soon ...

Engineers have developed a proof-of-concept neuromorphic device that detects hand movement, stores memories and processes information like a human brain. RMIT PhD student and study first author Thiha ...

The abundant cell type -- roughly 35% of all cells in the human brain -- appears to be a key part of orchestrating a complex network governing brain function. "We hope this begins to fundamentally ...

And because our understanding of human brain development is “still largely fragmented”, Velasco adds, a diverse modelling toolkit is not just helpful — it’s essential. Diversity ...

This breakthrough study is the first to show how the brain codes human-like internal models of emotion. Xiaowei Gu and Joshua Johansen at the RIKEN Center for Brain Science in Japan have ...