Our evolutionary advantage over our primate relatives may come down to accelerated genetic expression in just six types of brain cells.

Modeling the human brain requires charting billions of neurons and trillions of connections. The connectome project is ...

AI is obviating the need for certain cognitive processes as it reshapes how students, workers, and artists write, design, and ...

When you're trying to communicate or understand ideas, words don't always do the trick. Sometimes the more efficient approach is to do a simple sketch of that concept—for example, diagramming a ...

To get a better sense, I spoke to Joe Dworetzky at Bay City News and Pulitzer-winner Mark Fiore, two established cartoonists ...

I'm an illustrator, but I don't pretend to be the best there is. In each video I will find something in my art process that I struggle with and show you how I managed to overcome it. Sometimes it is ...

A team of scientists at Duke University made a mouse just a bit more human. They didn’t give it speech or opposable thumbs.

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 ...

The study emphasizes that while humans are uniquely vulnerable to the severe cognitive decline and memory loss associated with Alzheimer’s, non-human primates tend to show only mild, age-related ...

Synchron, which was founded in 2016 by neurologist Dr. Tom Oxley, is a biomedicine outfit that's exploring an endovascular approach to connecting devices to the human brain. The startup ...

This complicates efforts to draw broad conclusions and translate ... Or dig deeper into how the unique features of the human brain are acquired and what makes our brain different.” ...