We build AI systems to mimic the human brain: writing emails, answering questions and predicting what comes next. But new ...

Neuro-adaptive systems could sense hesitation, emerging quality decisions or degraded mental inputs that may lead to a negative outcome.

Modern neuroscience understands the brain as a set of specialized systems. Aspects of brain function such as attention, ...

Despite lacking a hippocampus entirely—and having diverged from the mammalian lineage roughly 400 million years ago—larval ...

New research suggests intelligence arises not from a single brain region, but from how networks across the brain work together as an integrated system. Neuroscientists often describe the brain as a ...

For the first time, clumps of human cells called organoids were fully integrated with the brains of rats—and influenced their behavior.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Is it possible to upload the consciousness of your mind into a computer? – Amreen, age 15, New Delhi, India The concept, cool yet ...

Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. Today, Amreen, age 15, from New Delhi, India, asks: Is it possible to upload the consciousness of your mind into a computer? The concept, cool yet ...

Time in space affects the body, but research has found that it can also quite literally affect the mind, prompting questions ...

What unique processes conspire to create a healthy, functional human brain? How can we be so genetically similar to, say, chimpanzees, and yet be light-years more sophisticated cognitively and ...

Researchers have used a new human reference genome, which includes many duplicated and repeat sequences left out of the original human genome draft, to identify genes that make the human brain ...

The concept, cool yet maybe a little creepy, is known as mind uploading. Think of it as a way to create a copy of your brain, a transmission of your mind and consciousness into a computer. There you ...