Seeing and imagining use similar brain machinery. New research reveals the brain circuit that identifies what is real, which ...

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

When most people hear the words human trafficking, they picture far-off places or dramatic kidnappings. But experts say that image is often wrong — and the real danger may be closer than you think The ...

Malcolm Gladwell called that know-how the “10,000-hour rule.” For humans to add any value they must put in the time. There are no short cuts.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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