Mind blanking is real, and it's not just zoning out. Neuroscientists have identified it as a distinct mental state where the ...

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

Mind blanking isn’t daydreaming. It's something more akin to meditation — but not quite the same. On any given day, your ...

A new experiment suggests that the thalamus plays a key role in humans becoming consciously aware of stimuli their brain ...

“You get a sense of how complicated you are. We’re looking at one tiny part ... of a mouse’s brain and the beauty and complexity that you can see in these actual neurons and the hundreds of ...