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With an estimated 86 billion neurons, the 3lb organ between your ears may be one of the most complex objects in the universe. All that complexity allows the brain to process more than 70,000 thoughts ...

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A new study highlights five key eras of human brain development, and they don’t align with age quite as one might expect.

Researchers have used a new human reference genome, which includes many duplicated and repeat sequences left out of the original human genome draft, to identify genes that make the human brain ...

Researchers around the world are studying how the human brain achieves its extraordinary complexity. A team at the Central ...

“A terabyte is, for most people, gigantic, yet a fragment of a human brain – just a miniscule, teeny-weeny little bit of human brain – is still thousands of terabytes.” The latest map in Science ...

New research suggests the human brain has five distinct ages, and it may not reach adulthood until a person's early 30s.

Based on the MRI scans, the new study maps the neural network of an average person across a lifespan, determining where ...

Scientists at the University of Cambridge in the U.K. have created a self-organizing, artificially intelligent system that uses the same tricks as the human brain to solve specific tasks. This ...