Creating a virtual brain may sound like a science-fiction nightmare, but for neuroscientists in Japan and at Seattle’s Allen Institute, it’s a big step toward a long-held dream. They say their ...

Neuroscientist M. Catalina “Cat” Camacho spends a lot of time playing with kids. They’re not her children, but participants in her research, which looks at how young brains learn to process emotions ...

Was this the week that America finally started clapping back at Donald Trump? Actions trigger reactions; we all know that. Yet, remarkably, Trump has spent the first nine months back in the White ...

One month after its release, Taylor Swift’s “The Life of a Showgirl” logs a major milestone as it hits a fn uninterrupted four weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard 200. The set is just the second album of ...

Despite the proliferation of productivity tools, performance frameworks, and time management hacks, many leaders still end their days feeling overwhelmed and mentally spent. The cause isn’t always ...

T here’s a 3D hand on a black screen. J. Galen Buckwalter concentrates on the image, trying to move one of the virtual hand’s fingers — with his mind. For more than 50 years, Buckwalter hasn’t felt ...

You may think your spouse’s "selective hearing" is a choice — but science argues otherwise. The phenomenon of selective hearing is more than choosing when or when not to listen, according to a recent ...

A brain implant can decode a person’s internal chatter — but the device works only if the user thinks of a preset password 1. The mind-reading device, or brain–computer interface (BCI), accurately ...

Johns Hopkins University researchers have grown a novel whole-brain organoid, complete with neural tissues and rudimentary blood vessels—an advance that could usher in a new era of research into ...

Current AI technology has hit a wall that prevents it from reaching artificial general intelligence. The next design leap involves adding a type of complexity that attempts to mimic the way the human ...

USC researchers have found a promising new brain scan marker that could better detect Alzheimer’s risk — but only for some. The tau-based benchmark works in Hispanic and White populations when paired ...