In the well-known thought experiment known as the prisoner's dilemma, one individual has to decide whether to stay silent or talk to the police about their crime based on how they anticipate an ...

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.

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

Scientists are building experimental computers from living human brain cells and testing how they learn and adapt.

This year is the centennial of the discovery of human brain waves. Few people know the story of that startling finding, because the true story was suppressed and lost to history. Almost two decades ...

Nothing teaches us how the brain works like neurosurgery, maintains Theodore Schwartz, MD, of Weill Cornell Medicine in New York City. "We tend to think about neuroscientists, neurologists, and ...

After publicizing its first ever human trial this year, Elon Musk’s brain chip company Neuralink was forced to admit that wires in the patient’s neural implant had become loose. And now Reuters ...

Through Artemis, NASA astronauts are returning to the Moon in preparation for one day going to Mars. To better prepare astronauts for these long journeys, scientists need to know: How do extended ...