What makes the human brain capable of language, imagination, mathematics and invention? For many years, the prevailing view ...

Professor Jim Al-Khalili unravels the mystery of how the most complex structure known of in the universe - the human brain - came to exist. From playing computer games with chimpanzees to studying ...

A sweeping new analysis of more than 4,000 brain scans reveals that our brains’ neural networks don’t simply mature and then decline; they reorganize through a series of distinct life-stage “epochs,” ...

A recent study published in Physical Review Letters reveals that many widely used signatures of criticality in brain data may be statistical artifacts. They propose a more robust framework that, when ...

As a neuroscience student, I was particularly interested to catch up on Charlie Rose's year-long "Brain" series, which featured top experts in the field. For those of you who haven't watched it, here ...