What did the very first complex vertebrate brain look like? To find out, scientists turned to an unlikely time traveler: the lamprey, a jawless, eel-like fish whose body plan has barely changed in ...

A well-known actor who had experienced a stroke was treated by stroke specialist Sandor Nardai. The actor had been left with aphasia, or an impaired ability to speak – brutal for anyone, but “probably ...

An audacious trial will test psilocybin in people over age sixty to see if increases plasticity in healthy aging brains. A handful of healthy senior citizens are about to trip on psilocybin—to see if ...

Father’s Day is an opportunity to recognize the efforts of dads everywhere. But becoming a father is more than just a lifestyle change—it alters one’s brain, too. Scientific American spoke with Devika ...

Much is made of artificial-intelligence bottlenecks like power, chip packaging and memory. But periodically investors get a reminder that one of the scarcest AI resources is top talent.

Summary: A high-resolution neuro-imaging study demonstrated that the human brain and Large Language Models (LLMs) organize and predict language using deeply parallel information processing principles.

Researchers discovered that several common dementia risk factors appear to take a bigger toll on women’s cognitive health than men’s. The findings may offer an important clue to why women are ...

This year will go down in history as the year a person became a trillionaire for the first time—on paper, at least. Elon Musk’s net worth catapulted to this unprecedented height thanks to the ...

We are born with the essential architecture of our brain raring to go. Over the previous nine months – give or take – some 100 billion neurons have sprung from a single 3 millimetre “neural tube” in ...

One of the world's top centers for brain science is taking a huge gamble on a tiny, transparent fish. The Howard Hughes Medical Institute's Janelia Research Campus near Washington, D.C., has announced ...

Alzheimer’s isn’t just one problem—it’s a tangled mix of biology, aging, and overall health. That’s why drugs targeting a single factor have fallen short, even as new treatments show modest benefits.

Tiny lab-grown brains are offering an unprecedented look at how schizophrenia and bipolar disorder disrupt neural activity. Researchers found distinct electrical firing patterns that could identify ...