For years, one of the simplest explanations for human intelligence was also one of the biggest: the human brain has an ...

Two seemingly identical neurons may not be identical after all. Discover the new theory that links their differences to the ...

A recent study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences suggests that individual cells in the human ...

A team at Northwestern University has printed artificial neurons from molybdenum disulfide (MoS₂) — a semiconducting mineral — on flexible plastic that produce spiking waveforms closely matching ...

What makes the human brain capable of language, imagination, mathematics and invention? For many years, the prevailing view ...

Researchers have been looking into the causes of neuron death in dementia. (Ktsimage/iStock/Getty Images Plus) To help cure ...

That is why scientists at the Sudha Gopalakrishnan Brain Centre (SGBC) at the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras (IIT-M) ...

Gliomas are cancers that originate directly in the brain, instead of spreading to the brain from other parts of the body. These cancers cannot be cured with conventional cancer treatments, as they ...

A small device that senses light and reacts like a brain cell could change how machines see and think. Built at the nanoscale ...

Northwestern University engineers printed artificial neurons that don’t just imitate the brain — they talk to it. In a new study, the Northwestern team developed flexible, low-cost devices that ...

Traumatic brain injury (TBI) affects millions of people worldwide every year and remains a major cause of long-term disability, cognitive decline, and neurological complications.