A chronological map of the fetal brain reveals when key cells emerge and provides clues about autism and cancer.

New research from the University of Wyoming reveals that the brain cells that control hunger may be far more adaptable during prenatal brain development than scientists previously believed. This ...

A new study suggests AI systems could be a lot more efficient. Researchers were able to shrink an AI vision model to 1/1000th ...

A pair of new studies have provided fresh evidence in the long-running scientific debate—and the result could be ...

Not only do our brains appear to generate new neurons into adulthood, but those of superagers contain far more brain cells in ...

Researchers at Australian start-up Cortical Labs have taught human neurons grown on a chip to play the classic Doom game. In 2021, they had already used 800,000 neurons to play Pong. Now, with four ...

All animals, including humans, experience stress. Not the type where you worry about paying bills, but metabolic ...

When you get better at a skill-recognizing a familiar face in a crowd, spotting a typo at a glance, or anticipating the next move in a game-sensory neurons in your brain become more coordinated, ...

Few games have been meme-ified quite like Doom, and in the past, many have capitalized on the joke. Scientists have gotten E.

Florida Atlantic University has received a $2.4 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to investigate how an immune-related receptor in neurons plays a fundamental role in brain function ...

A dish of living human neurons has been taught to play Doom. No, it isn’t conscious or watching the screen the way players do. But it is learning to respond to signals in a way that produces ...

After training neurons to play Pong, the team is back, and this time the brain cells are slaying demons with super shotguns.