Does string theory—the controversial “theory of everything” from physics—tell us anything about consciousness and the human ...

New research shows that advances in technology could help make future supercomputers far more energy efficient. Neuromorphic computers are modeled after the structure of the human brain, and researche ...

By studying large language models as if they were living things instead of computer programs, scientists are discovering some ...

A new AI model in the US, SleepFM, has found that patterns in human slumber can be used to predict a person's risk for about 130 diseases, including dementia and certain cancers.

The future of AI isn’t in a distant server farm – it’s in your pocket, finally awake, and it doesn’t need Wi-Fi to prove it, ...

Veronika Koren talks about pursuing a theory of neural coding that doesn’t fit a simple narrative, and the resilience it took to see it through.

One of the dominant ways of thinking about addiction is as a disease. While there is evidence for this approach, it often ...

A poor night's sleep portends a bleary-eyed next day, but it could also hint at diseases that will strike years down the road ...

Pea-size clusters of human cells called brain organoids inspire both hope and fear. Experts are debating how scientists can ...

As brain cancer continues to claim hundreds of thousands of lives each year, Paris-based Robeauté is developing microrobots ...

For over a century, Alzheimer's disease (AD) has been considered irreversible. Consequently, research has focused on disease prevention or slowing, rather than recovery. Despite billions of dollars ...

Your brain can survive for several minutes after your heart stops. But what if your brain took a time-out and stopped working for five seconds? Would you be instantly brain-dead? What would happen to ...