US Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy recently said he would prioritise studies into environmental causes ...

Sometimes it can feel like you spend the whole first part of your life prioritizing certain aspects of your health, and then, ...

Kazu Gomi, president and CEO of NTT Research, has a big view of the technology world from his perch in Silicon Valley.

In face-to-face conversations, speakers use hand movements to signal meaning. But do listeners actually use these gestures to ...

Researchers have developed a new artificial intelligence (AI) technique that brings machine vision closer to how the human brain processes images. Called Lp-Convolution, this method improves the ...

A team of researchers from the Institute for Basic Science, Yonsei University, and the Max Planck Institute have developed a ...

A massive, multi-year project led by over 150 scientists has produced the most detailed map yet of how visual information travels through the brain – revealing more than 500 million connections in a ...

the portion of the brain that governs higher-level processes such as memory, thought, and personality. Conscious perception is the ability of human beings to become aware of the stimuli received ...

William Daggett was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease several years ago. A brain surgery has helped to the quiet the tremors ...

Before dying in 2021, Alvin Lucier donated blood for "Revivification," an installation that generates sound in response to ...

“All the while, I couldn’t help thinking of how human brains develop, with an initial surfeit of neurons and connections that get gradually pared down as the brain is pruned into a more ...

The cerebral cortex of the human brain is crucial and complex, and includes different subtypes of neuron that need to be specified during development. How this process is regulated is unclear.