New research is giving us a clearer picture of the human brain and how it functions.

The human brain's soft folds and ridges, arising in early development and continuing through the first 18 months of life, are a visual icon for intelligence itself. Peeling back the layers of this ...

A new study from UC San Francisco shows how certain cells in the brain may cause aneurysms to weaken and rupture. It helps ...

There's a quiet irony at the center of modern neuroscience. The more precisely researchers can peer inside the brain, with ...

For centuries, people have wondered what separates being awake from being asleep, dreaming, or unconscious. Scientists have ...

Humans have long wondered when and how we begin to form thoughts. Are we born with a pre-configured brain, or do thought patterns only begin to emerge in response to our sensory experiences of the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the big picture of artificial intelligence. The brain is unimaginably complex. Google and Harvard recently announced ...

Scientists are learning how the brain extracts discrete words from a continuous stream of sounds.

If you and your family are happily engaging one another without staring into electronic devices, your brains and ...

Confocal microscope image of a fruit fly brain. (Louise Cheng) Not every region of your brain is equally susceptible to cancer. Over many decades of treating brain cancer, doctors have noticed ...

Learn how brain tumor growth may depend not only on cancer-causing mutations, but also on the molecular conditions in ...