Some brains appear to fight back against Alzheimer's by helping immature brain cells survive damage instead of succumbing to it. Understanding this natural resilience could point researchers toward ...

The AI firm Anthropic has developed a technique that has given it the clearest glimpse yet at what’s really going on inside ...

Before intelligence can be programmed, it must first be understood as a process, one that nature has been refining across three distinct timescales. This video traces the deep logic connecting ...

For many parents, enrolling their children in music lessons is more about helping them discover new hobbies. But many are unaware of the fact that learning music can have much deeper effects on a ...

Healthy brains may be built through a process of controlled damage and rapid repair. The most dangerous type of DNA damage is a regular feature of healthy early brain development, experiments in mice ...

The startup Coherence Neuro is now testing a brain-computer interface that could one day use electrical stimulation to prevent tumors from growing. Coherence Neuro says it temporarily placed its ...

Few moments in a soccer game are more electrifying than the penalty kick. The goalkeeper stands, waiting for the kick – and even before the ball is struck they must predict where it is going and ...

Thomas Mulligan delves into the biological and psychological barriers that prevent the human mind from generating entirely original ideas without external influence. Kim Kardashian responds to ...

A new study just revealed several risk factors that may be uniquely shaping the development of dementia in women. Scientists from the University of California, San Diego found that women have a ...

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If you look at a Neanderthal skull and a Homo sapiens skull, they’re visibly different: Neanderthal skulls are lower and longer, whereas ours tend to be rounder. However, those differences probably ...