Therefore, there must be zero of them.’” In recent years, research started to uncover how the human brain represents numbers, but no one understood how it handles zero. Now two independent studies, ...

In a discovery that redefines our understanding of brain function, scientists shared that individual human neurons are far ...

The 2024 Nobel Prizes in physics and chemistry were seen as a sweep for artificial intelligence (AI) tools which, at their ...

A groundbreaking study using PET scans has revealed that autistic individuals have fewer brain synapses, directly correlating with more pronounced autism traits like social and communication ...

Recent research identifies 16 human nerve cell types, revealing complex sensory responses and challenging traditional views ...

Male and females brains were accurately classified with greater than 90% accuracy. Differences were localized to the default ...

Scientists have created brain ‘organoids’ that may be showing early signs of sentience. Should that give researchers pause?

The brain is a marvel of efficiency, honed by thousands of years of evolution so it can adapt and thrive in a rapidly changing world. Yet, despite decades of research, the mystery of how the brain ...

With 140,000 neurons, 50 million synapses and over 100,000 cell label annotations, the fruit fly brain has been mapped and ...

The data the team had access to represent an average of the subjects’ brain activity, so future research could look to map ...

In the new study, the team wanted to investigate whether screening movies during fMRI scanning could give any insight into how the brain’s functional networks respond to a series of complex audio and ...

the researchers identified brain networks and tracked how they related to a movie’s scene-by-scene content, including people, animals, objects, music, speech and narrative. For example, different ...