Researchers studying the human brain shared a lot of fascinating research this year, like how to keep brains young and how to ...

Brain scans of thousands of people revealed that the human brain has five distinct eras, with turning points in the way it is ...

Organoids are bits of neural tissue that model human brain development. Their use in science makes some uneasy, in part because the brain is so closely tied to our sense of self.

A new, high-performance brain-computer interface (BCI) can be rapidly implanted through a minimally invasive procedure. The ...

Humans possess a remarkable balance between stability and flexibility, enabling them to quickly establish new plans and ...

A selection of science-based books from the year that together shine new light on who we are and why we think and act as we do.

When we watch someone move, get injured, or express emotion, our brain doesn’t just see it—it partially feels it. Researchers ...

Brain organoids can be a good step forward, assuming they are grown from induced human pluripotent stem cells. That allows us to sidestep ethical concerns about the use of human embryos, thereby ...

MIT researchers are using living cells to target diseased brain areas and deliver tiny electronic devices that can modulate ...

A new study suggests temporal lobe epilepsy may be linked to early aging of certain brain cells. When researchers removed these aging cells in mice, seizures dropped, memory improved, and some animals ...

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Researchers are closing in on a new kind of protection against the deadliest drug in the United States: a vaccine that trains the immune system to trap fentanyl before it reaches the brain. If early ...