New research is giving us a clearer picture of the human brain and how it functions.

The human brain contains roughly 86 billion neurons, and for decades scientists have assumed that these cells are the primary ...

For centuries, people have wondered what separates being awake from being asleep, dreaming, or unconscious. Scientists have ...

Scientists are learning how the brain extracts discrete words from a continuous stream of sounds.

Humans have long wondered when and how we begin to form thoughts. Are we born with a pre-configured brain, or do thought patterns only begin to emerge in response to our sensory experiences of the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the big picture of artificial intelligence. The brain is unimaginably complex. Google and Harvard recently announced ...

Laughter is the best medicine, according to one old adage. Now, new research suggests it boosts child learning and ...

For most of human evolution, the story of the brain seemed to move in one direction. It got bigger. That long rise is still there in the fossil record. But a new analysis argues that the trend did not ...

Learn how brain tumor growth may depend not only on cancer-causing mutations, but also on the molecular conditions in ...