The race to understand the brain has just crossed a threshold that once belonged to science fiction. Using one of the world’s ...

Neural tissue engineering aims to mimic the brain's complex environment, the extracellular matrix, which supports nerve cell ...

Slicing up and analyzing real, living, three-dimensional brain tissue comes with some obvious complications – as in, it tends ...

If this neuromorphic machine is real, it’s a milestone for neuroscience—and a test of what AI can and can’t replace.

The ability to analyze the brain's neural connectivity is emerging as a key foundation for brain-computer interface (BCI) ...

Last spring, Meisa Salaita, cofounder of Science ATL, which organizes the Atlanta Science Festival, touched a human brain. “Each year during the festival, a brain is displayed,” she explains. “It’s ...

A team of researchers used a massive dance video dataset and advanced AI models to map how the human brain interprets dance, revealing striking differences between experts and nonexperts.

Couldn't eat another bite, but definitely have room for a slice or two of that oh-so-moist triple chocolate ganache cake? This is the paradox of the "dessert stomach." A new study from the Max Planck ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Those aren’t just lyrics from the Queen song “Bohemian Rhapsody.” They’re also the ...

A rare intracranial brain-recording study revealed that tirzepatide, a GLP-1 and GIP receptor agonist, temporarily silences craving-related neural activity in a key reward circuit of the brain.