A young zebra finch learning to sing may not sound like much at first, just a babbling stream of chirps and whistles. But ...

Habit helps take the mental load off figuring out how to get somewhere. But relying on the familiar can make it harder to ...

The brain is often described as a dense forest of connections, and for years scientists have searched for ways to trim that ...

Every experience we have changes our brain, the way a ceramicist reshapes a slab of clay. Every corner we turn, every conversation we have, every shudder we feel causes cascading effects: Chemicals ...

As traditional computer chips reach their physical limits and artificial intelligence demands more energy than ever, ...

MIT neuroscientists have uncovered a surprising secret hidden in the adult brain: millions of “silent synapses,” dormant ...

Your brain is currently expending about a fifth of your body’s energy, and almost none of that is being used for what you’re doing right now. Reading these words, feeling the weight of your body in a ...

We should be cautious about permitting students to use Artificial Intelligence, especially when it allows them to offload ...

New research suggests pregnancy doesn’t impair the brain—it reshapes it, refining memory, attention, and emotional awareness ...

Baby brain” isn’t the deficit it’s stereotyped to be, research suggests. Neural adaptations during pregnancy can prime ...

A hidden waste-removal pathway in the brain has finally been caught in action. Using cutting-edge MRI scans, researchers discovered that fluid flows along the middle meningeal artery in a slow, ...