The way the brain develops can shape us throughout our lives, so neuroscientists are intensely curious about how it happens.

Monkey experiments hint at a "motivation brake" pathway between two brain regions. Manipulating it may lead to new treatments ...

Does string theory—the controversial “theory of everything” from physics—tell us anything about consciousness and the human ...

People with unusually wired brains — whether they’re highly creative, analytical, sensitive, or simply think in ways that don’t match the norm — often move through the world with daily habits that ...

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Paul and Earl Hudson were born to a Jamaican mother and an American father who worked as a mechanic for the U.S. Air Force, and they moved all over the country before settling down in Washington, D.C.

As we age, the human brain rewires itself. The process happens in distinct phases, or “epochs,” according to new research, as the structure of our neural networks changes and our brains reconfigure ...

Tijl Grootswagers receives funding from the Australian Research Council. Sophie Smit does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit ...

Get started with Java streams, including how to create streams from Java collections, the mechanics of a stream pipeline, examples of functional programming with Java streams, and more. You can think ...

A.I. search tools, chatbots and social media are associated with lower cognitive performance, studies say. What to do? Credit...Derek Abella Supported by By Brian X. Chen Brian X. Chen is The Times’s ...

Jenny Graves receives funding from the Australian Research Council. Differences between men and women in intelligence and behaviour have been proposed and disputed for decades. Now, a growing body of ...

But why is that? What is it about our relationships that make them so central to our lives? According to neuroscientist Ben Rein’s new book, Why Brains Need Friends, it comes down to our brains. As he ...