Scientists have found evidence of new brain cells sprouting in adults - a process that many thought only occurred in children ...

Biomedical engineers have achieved a major breakthrough in organoid research, pushing us closer to a new era of ...

Our brains may work best when teetering on the edge of chaos. A new theory suggests that criticality a sweet spot between order and randomness is the secret to learning, memory, and adaptability.

Hengen proposed criticality as a unifying theory of brain function and disease in the journal Neuron. Woodrow Shew, a physicist at the University of Arkansas, is the co-author.

The human brain has many advantages over even the most advanced AI—creative thinking, ethical judgements, and intuition, just to name a few. But when it comes to information processing speed ...

Prisoner's Dilemma What Game Theory Reveals About AI A new study finds that LLMs struggle to cooperate—and therefore to be social. Updated June 8, 2025 | Reviewed by Kaja Perina ...

“While psilocybin ingestion has been shown experimentally to induce alterations to neuroplasticity-related processes in the brain, McKenna’s stoned ape theory assumes direct causation between ...

The human brain is not flawed in a malfunctioning sense; ... The free-energy principle: a unified brain theory? Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 11(2), 127–138. Gregory, R. L. (1997).

The social brain theory states that the higher energy content provided by the fruit diet of tree-climbing primates manifestly increased the ability to support a larger brain, which could then be ...

With this work in mind, Murugan and her team wanted to see if they could detect hints of this phenomenon at the level of the human brain. First, they needed to see if they could measure UPEs ...

Human brain samples were collected in autopsies last year, and they contained many more tiny shards of plastic than ever before, researchers say. Plastic shards have also been discovered in livers and ...

Science Proves Popular Theory About Death, Brain Scans Prove Life Flashes Before Our Eyes Death is an experience that humans may feel intrigued by, but can never truly understand without actually ...