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

A new study from UC San Francisco shows how certain cells in the brain may cause aneurysms to weaken and rupture. It helps ...

The human brain's soft folds and ridges, arising in early development and continuing through the first 18 months of life, are a visual icon for intelligence itself. Peeling back the layers of this ...

There's a quiet irony at the center of modern neuroscience. The more precisely researchers can peer inside the brain, with ...

Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine have uncovered a fundamental principle underlying how the human brain processes ...

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 ...

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

Confocal microscope image of a fruit fly brain. (Louise Cheng) Not every region of your brain is equally susceptible to cancer. Over many decades of treating brain cancer, doctors have noticed ...

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