What if your conscious experiences were not just the chatter of neurons, but were connected to the hum of the universe? In a ...

From bonobos and rats to tickling robots, research is finally cracking the secrets of why we’re ticklish, and what that ...

Subtle sexism that pervades everyday life often gets shrugged off. But research shows it can still have lasting psychological ...

The next great transformation may be the rise of networked minds, the merging of human and machine intelligence into ...

A new study highlights five key eras of human brain development, and they don’t align with age quite as one might expect.

Cambridge neuroscientists discover five distinct stages of brain development from birth to 90, revealing key turning points ...

A new study led by cognitive neuroscientists at the University of Colorado Boulder and the Max Planck Institute for Human ...

Brain-computer interfaces will play a central role in defining how human intelligence and artificial intelligence fit together.

Humans don’t just recognize each other’s voices—our brains also light up for the calls of chimpanzees, hinting at ancient communication roots shared with our closest primate relatives. Researchers ...

New research suggests the human brain has five distinct ages, and it may not reach adulthood until a person's early 30s.

Is language core to thought, or a separate process? For 15 years, the neuroscientist Ev Fedorenko has gathered evidence of a ...

Bilingual brains reveal something fundamental about human intelligence. It's not about language. It's about domain ...