Close your eyes and picture a coffee cup. Suddenly, the dark fills with shape, color, and texture. It’s a picture as vivid as ...

The next surprise was that human organoids just kept growing. Mouse organoids were done with making neurons within nine days.

How does the brain create mental images? A new study reveals that visual imagination and perception share a common neural code.

When you close your eyes and picture a familiar face, your brain does not conjure the image from scratch. According to ...

The human brain must be able to link memory content to the circumstances in which it occurs. Researchers in Bonn have now discovered how the human brain uses two different groups of neurons to store ...

The brain is the most complex organ in the human body. Different parts of the brain perform a variety of functions, all of ...

Biological computing, a field in which living human neurons interface with silicon hardware, is progressing from proof of concept to early functional systems, with broad implications for computing ...

Scientists have trained a computer made from living human neurons to play the classic video game Doom, marking a strange but important step forward in biological computing. A clump of roughly 200,000 ...

Researchers discover that the nerve cells that make us uniquely human are also uniquely vulnerable to dying during the waves ...

TL;DR: Cortical Labs demonstrated human brain cells controlling DOOM by converting game visuals into electrical signals for 200,000 cultured neurons on a multi-electrode array. This breakthrough in ...

The brain controls the release of glucose in a wide range of stressful circumstances, including fasting and low blood sugar levels. However, less attention has been paid to its role in day-to-day ...

Researchers pinpointed the purpose of mysterious heart neurons in mice—and humans have them, too When you get up out of a ...