A large study of brain scans shows that our neural wiring evolves through five major stages from birth to late old age. These ...

Oprah Winfrey talked to people going "no contact" with their families ahead of Thanksgiving. What is that – and should you do ...

Developmental patterning pathways are essential for establishing the structural and functional architecture of the brain.

Objective overview of Boston Scientific Corporation within the medical device sector, covering operational segments, ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

When engineers build AI language models like GPT-5 from training data, at least two major processing features emerge: memorization (reciting exact text they’ve seen before, like famous quotes or ...

Elaine Chen covers biotech, co-writes The Readout newsletter, and co-hosts STAT’s weekly biotech podcast, The Readout Loud. You can reach Elaine on Signal at elaineywchen.70. Compass Pathways, which ...

When humans and other animals are in a calm state, they tend to breathe slower, and their heartbeat also slows down. Contrarily, when they are exercising or under psychological stress, both their ...

Neuroscientists from around the world have worked in parallel to map, for the first time, the entire brain activity of mice while they were making decisions. This achievement involved using electrodes ...

The USGA announced a groundbreaking collaboration with eight major golf entities, including the PGA TOUR and Pinehurst Resort, to form Pathways Launch, designed to widen the pipeline of golf’s future ...

Somdip is the Chief Scientist of Nosh Technologies, an MIT Innovator Under 35 and a Professor of Practice (AI/ML) at the Woxsen University. This may sound like science fiction, but the convergence of ...

Researchers have identified a promising new strategy for treating alcohol use disorder (AUD). A novel study found that the dopamine-boosting drug tolcapone increases activity in the prefrontal cortex ...