The covid-19 pandemic changed our lives, and the world, in many ways - and now we are starting to understand its wider ...

What makes the human brain distinctive? A new study published July 21 in Cell identifies two genes linked to human brain features and provides a road map to discover many more.

Like most human traits, blue eyes are determined by genes, and no two people have exactly the same hue. It works a lot like individual fingerprints, making our eyes two of the most distinctive parts ...

"To know, is to know that you know nothing," said Socrates, the famed ancient Greek philosopher. And while we know a LOT thanks to science, there's still so much that we don't know. These mysteries ...

The large size of the cerebrum—especially the cerebral cortex—relative to the rest of the brain, is a uniquely human trait that conventional wisdom says makes us smarter than animals.

The Best Illusion of the Year contest offers researchers, and participants, an opportunity to explore the gaps and limits of human perception.

A new study has revealed compelling evidence that brain criticality—a dynamic balance between neural excitation and inhibition—has a strong genetic foundation and is associated with cognitive ...

The brain’s sweet spot: How criticality could unlock learning, memory—and prevent Alzheimer’s Date: June 25, 2025 Source: Washington University in St. Louis Summary: Our brains may work best ...

New research shows that the human brain automatically recognizes what actions an environment affords—like walking, climbing, or swimming—even without conscious thought.

Overlooked cells might explain the human brain's huge storage capacity Date: May 28, 2025 Source: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Summary: Researchers have a new hypothesis for how brain ...

A new memory model called Input-Driven Plasticity (IDP) offers a more human-like explanation for how external stimuli help us retrieve memories, building on the foundations of the classic Hopfield ...