About ten years ago, scientists began exploring an unconventional idea for studying the brain: using bioluminescent light to make neural activity visible. Instead of shining light onto the brain from ...

Questions about the nature of consciousness remain among the most perplexing areas of modern scientific research, with ...

Dementia has long been framed as a slow, irreversible loss of neurons, but a new line of research is shifting attention to ...

“This is a paradigm shift,” says Donn Van Deren, PhD, postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Pennsylvania, who ...

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

Is curing Alzheimer’s an impossible challenge or can we get there? I was invited to attend brain surgery at the forefront of dementia research. I’m wearing a surgical gown in the back ...

The idea that the universe itself might be intelligent sounds like science fiction, yet a growing group of researchers is ...

Neuroscientist Steve Ramirez has found ways to plant memories in mice. Here's what that could mean for humans.

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.

MIT researchers tested the “Spatial Computing” theory and found that brain waves organize neurons into flexible, ...

Robots now see the world with an ease that once belonged only to science fiction. They can recognise objects, navigate ...

By directly communicating with the brain, a new wireless device could someday help restore lost senses or manage pain without medications, its developers say.