Researchers have settled a 60-year-old debate in neuroscience, proving that the visual cortex constructs complex images from ...

The oldest known musical instruments— flutes carved from bones —are over 40,000 years old. And humans were likely making music before that, based on fossils showing our ancestors had the ability to ...

For most of the 20th century, the scientific consensus held that the adult brain was essentially fixed, unable to grow new connections or recover lost function after a critical window in childhood.

Your brain is an amazing organ that changes, adapts, and even gets sharper when you use it — no matter how old you are. And the more you do for your brain, the more benefits you’ll see in return. That ...

Have you ever been trapped in your car in mud or snow, and couldn’t leave until someone pulled you out? Researchers have discovered a psychedelic may act like the huge truck pulling your car (or mind) ...

Scientists in the US have uploaded a fruit fly to a computer simulation, while an Australian lab has taught neurons on a glass chip to play a 90s video game. How long before we are all living in a sci ...

In lab experiments, neuroscientists have trained goldfish and rats to drive robots. But these tests weren’t just party tricks ...