Humans have pondered this question since the times of the ancient Greeks, and the Myth of bronze automaton Talos — forged by the god Hephaestus to protect the island of Crete — says Ray Kurzweil in ...

The human mind is turning out to be far stranger and more intricate than the tidy diagrams in old biology textbooks ever ...

Researchers at the University of Geneva, together with colleagues in Switzerland, France, the United States and Israel, ...

It's one of nature's greatest ironies: the human brain lacks the ability to grasp its own complexity. Indeed, the brain is complicated. The three-pound organ housed in our heads consists of roughly 86 ...

Scientists have created a computer model that aims to mimic the human brain, hoping it might teach us about ourselves.

As a neuroscientist, I am not afraid of AI. Source: Randa Marzouk/Unsplash In fact, I would love to see it improve faster. One major obstacle to a significant leap is that AI is developed by engineers ...

A new study led by cognitive neuroscientists at the University of Colorado Boulder and the Max Planck Institute for Human ...

From childhood to adulthood, our brains evolve at five critical ages. Here’s when they happen.

The human brain continues to surprise scientists. From how it learns to the fact that our brains glow, there's a lot we have yet to learn about the inner workings of the human brain. One especially ...

Scientists have developed a system called “mind captioning” that turns brain activity patterns into short text captions.

Researchers have used a new human reference genome, which includes many duplicated and repeat sequences left out of the original human genome draft, to identify genes that make the human brain ...