For more than a century, brain imaging has been a story of trade-offs: sharp pictures but slow timing, or fast signals with ...

A new computational model of the brain based closely on its biology and physiology has not only learned a simple visual ...

A new bioluminescent tool allows neurons to glow on their own, letting scientists track brain activity without harmful lasers ...

A biologically grounded computational model built to mimic real neural circuits, not trained on animal data, learned a visual categorization task just as actual lab animals do, matching their accuracy ...

Even consciousness could reveal its secrets someday with this realistic simulation, researchers hope. It will not only ...

A new ‘biomimetic’ model of brain circuits and function at multiple scales produced naturalistic dynamics and learning, and ...

Researchers have created a protein that can detect the faint chemical signals neurons receive from other brain cells. By ...

Scientists can finally hear the brain’s quietest messages—unlocking the hidden code behind how neurons think, decide, and ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr. Lance B. Eliot is a world-renowned AI scientist and consultant. In today’s column, I analyze the recently announced ...

MIT researchers are using living cells to target diseased brain areas and deliver tiny electronic devices that can modulate ...

Our brain is an energy-efficient marvel, with 86 billion neurons and trillions of connections running on just 20 watts—the energy of a single lightbulb. Swiss innovators at Final Spark are ...

Scientists have engineered a protein able to record the incoming chemical signals of brain cells (as opposed to just their ...