Ripple and Stellar founder Jed McCaleb wants to build AGI by studying how the brain learns—then translating those rules into ...

In a bid to better understand, and potentially treat, a host of conditions that affect early cognition, neurodevelopment, and ...

For decades, scientists have mapped attention, memory, language, and reasoning to separate brain networks — yet one big mystery remained: why does the mind feel like a single, unified system?

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Neuroscientists have spent two decades testing whether the brain sits at a “critical point,” a phase transition between stable and unstable states that would give neural circuits maximum flexibility, ...

Current AI technology has hit a wall that prevents it from reaching artificial general intelligence. The next design leap involves adding a type of complexity that attempts to mimic the way the human ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Scientists showed that it’s possible to reproduce an entire cerebral cortex inside one of the world’s fastest computers. The model represents the ...

New research shows gut bacteria can directly influence how the brain develops and functions. When scientists transferred microbes from different primates into mice, the animals’ brains began to ...

For folks who are dealing with type 2 diabetes, Metformin should be a familiar first-line medication that any doctor would ...