UCLA researchers have discovered two powerful influences that help guide how the human brain forms before birth. Radial glia, ...

Human brains may be wired for rhythm before birth, but culture and experience shape how beat perception fully develops.

The human brain has upward of 86 billion neurons, connected by some 100 trillion synapses ...

The seemingly trivial ability to hear a regular pulse in music is a remarkable—and perhaps distinctively human—feature of the ...

As the human brain takes shape before birth, a remarkable type of stem cell helps give it many of the features that make it ...

A 2026 Nature Health study found plastic particles in almost every brain sample tested.

The technology to truly understand the human brain is almost here. Within two years, researchers could have working prototypes of a platform that combines artificial intelligence with living brain ...

Scientists discovered that human microglia, immune cells that help shape developing brain circuits, can take four to eight years to mature instead of just weeks as they do in mice. The unusually slow ...

Harvard neuroscientists have kept tiny clusters of human brain cells alive in laboratory dishes for more than five years, ...

Neuroscientists at the University of Cambridge have identified five "major epochs" of brain structure over the course of a human life, as our brains rewire to support different ways of thinking while ...

The human brain sometimes avoids decay for millennia while the rest of the body turns to bones.

Simulating billions of neurons is becoming possible. Measuring one living human brain well enough to copy it remains the harder problem.