The way the brain develops can shape us throughout our lives, so neuroscientists are intensely curious about how it happens.

Does string theory—the controversial “theory of everything” from physics—tell us anything about consciousness and the human ...

The world’s most powerful supercomputers can now run simulations of billions of neurons, and researchers hope such models ...

A sweeping genetic screen reveals how the brain is built and exposes a hidden gene behind a newly discovered childhood brain ...

A large genetic screen has revealed how stem cells transform into brain cells, exposing hundreds of genes that make this ...

A study tracking thousands of neurons shows how the brain separates memory content from context to support flexible recall.

Understanding how the brain creates conscious experience remains one of science’s most difficult challenges. Brain scans and ...

Brain cells named for stars are finally getting their time to shine. Three distinct studies, published May 15 in Science, show that astrocytes, once thought of as support cells, powerfully shape how ...

Despite the nursery rhyme about three blind mice, mouse eyesight is surprisingly sensitive. Studying how mice see has helped researchers discover unprecedented details about how individual brain cells ...

Attention can feel like a fragile thing, especially when your brain struggles to sort signal from noise. Every second, your ...

A single damaged protein inside one brain cell may seem insignificant. Yet new research shows how that small mistake can ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Bilal Haider, Georgia Institute of Technology (THE CONVERSATION) Despite the nursery ...