Researchers are no longer just simulating brains in silicon, they are wiring living human neurons into machines and asking them to compute. Tiny clusters of brain cells, grown from stem cells and ...

Engineers at Northwestern University have taken a striking leap toward merging machines with the human brain by printing ...

Northwestern University engineers printed artificial neurons that don't just imitate the brain—they talk to it. In a new ...

The same brain cells activate when you see something and when you imagine it, helping explain why mental images can feel so ...

Research into mice from UT Southwestern and other institutions shows brain cells help the body run farther and faster.

How does brain metabolism affect aging? Researchers received a $3.3M NIH grant to study neurometabolic coupling and Alzheimer ...

Scientists in Canada have uncovered a surprising weakness in glioblastoma, one of the deadliest brain cancers. They found ...

Scientists have created a super-map of the brain containing 30 million cells to trace the prenatal origins of diseases.

Place cells are neurons in the brain’s memory center, the hippocampus, that help the brain keep track of the body’s location in space. Arrays of these cells form a cognitive map, firing off electrical ...