A massive, multi-year project led by over 150 scientists has produced the most detailed map yet of how visual information ...

The universe has no brain. It has no gray matter, no nervous system, no neurons firing electrical impulses—and yet, that ...

From a cubic millimeter of brain tissue, scientists have constructed a precise, 3D map of the activity in a mouse’s brain, ...

A team of over 150 scientists has achieved what once seemed impossible: a complete wiring and activity map of a tiny section ...

New research is revealing how specialized neurons give our brains an edge artificial intelligence can only dream of ...

The brain learns due to neurons using multiple mechanisms to store knowledge according to a new study by researchers.

Researchers from the University of Rochester have begun an ambitious project to study if living neurons can transmit light through their axons—the long, tail-like nerve fibers of neurons that resemble ...

New research by IARPA has achieved the "impossible," providing the most detailed map of brain activity to date.

By studying mutations in a gene called neurexin-1, which is highly associated with both schizophrenia and autism, researchers ...

Researchers may have found a way to get the benefits of sleep through artificial naps, but the research is far from complete.

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