The world’s most powerful supercomputers can now run simulations of billions of neurons, and researchers hope such models ...

University of Utah researchers at the Pulst-Scoles Laboratory have discovered that reducing levels of the STAUFEN-1 protein ...

What happens to the human brain when the force of gravity is removed from the equation? New research is beginning to reveal ...

Pea-size clusters of human cells called brain organoids inspire both hope and fear. Experts are debating how scientists can responsibly use these bits of gray matter.

Researchers at the University of Michigan developed a machine learning–based digital twin to map real-time tumor metabolism ...

In findings that raise a variety of questions about how our brains work, and even about the nature of consciousness, UC Santa ...

Human brains do something peculiar when a chimpanzee screams or hoots. Instead of treating those sounds as generic animal ...

Humans respond to environments that change at many different speeds. A video game player, for example, reacts to on-screen ...

Megan Molteni reports on discoveries from the frontiers of genomic medicine, neuroscience, and reproductive tech. She joined STAT in 2021 after covering health and science at WIRED. You can reach ...

The potential for these kinds of machines to reshape computer processing, increase energy efficiency, and revolutionize medical testing has scientists excited. But when do we consider these cells to ...