Recent research reveals that a blank mind may be closer to your brain’s default setting, while thinking and imagining are add ...

“Rather than actively shaping experience, the thalamus (if it is considered at all) has typically been relegated to a role in ...

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Early on, Nedergaard and Iliff, a glial cell biologist and a vascular physiologist, respectively, hypothesized that waste ...

Our brains are increasingly plastic. Minuscule shards and flakes of polymers are surprisingly abundant in brain tissue, a study of postmortem brains shows. This appraisal of microplastics and ...

Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is often described as one of the invisible scars that firefighters and others accumulate after years of dealing with trauma in their jobs. Now the scars are ...

It’s estimated it can take an AI model over 6,000 joules of energy to generate a single text response. By comparison, your brain needs just 20 joules every second to keep you alive and cognitive. That ...

Recently, Nvidia founder Jensen Huang, whose company builds the chips powering today’s most advanced artificial intelligence systems, remarked: “The thing that’s really, really quite amazing is the ...

A new brain-computer interface can decode a person's inner speech, which could help people with paralysis communicate.

When you look at an abstract painting, study it in a museum for example, what do you see and what do you feel? Does it conjure an old memory, a sense of spirituality, or confusion? Artists and ...