Casey Harrell using a brain-implant interface. (Regents of the University of California, Davis) This Week in Science: A world first, a strange human pattern, and much more! We start with something you ...

In the well-known thought experiment known as the prisoner's dilemma, one individual has to decide whether to stay silent or talk to the police about their crime based on how they anticipate an ...

Researchers have figured out how to temporarily look straight through a living brain tissue with minimal invasiveness and interference in its processes. Japanese researchers at Kyushu University ...

The technology to truly understand the human brain is almost here. Within two years, researchers could have working prototypes of a platform that combines artificial intelligence with living brain ...

Neural network models that are able to make decisions or store memories have long captured scientists' imaginations. In these models, a hallmark of the computation being performed by the network is ...

October saw several universities launch major initiatives in brain science and neurological research, often with the help of new private gifts to underwrite their efforts. Here are summaries of the ...

In findings that raise a variety of questions about how our brains work, and even about the nature of consciousness, UC Santa Barbara researchers and collaborators report that only a small section of ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story A neuroscientist argues that brain science points to the existence of an immaterial mind or soul, pointing to cases like split-brain patients and ...