New research suggests that the most ancient evolutionary parts of the brain could be contributing to consciousness.

In his new BBC show, Jim Al-Khalili journeys through hundreds of millions of years of brain evolution. Live Science spoke to ...

Why AI can never truly replace the human brain, according to Jim Al-Khalili - After spending more than four months studying the evolution of the brain, Jim Al-Khalili has never been so sure of its ini ...

Researchers have used a new human reference genome, which includes many duplicated and repeat sequences left out of the original human genome draft, to identify genes that make the human brain ...

Researchers at University of California San Diego, part of the national HEALthy Brain and Child Development (HBCD) Study ...

Brain aging may be compared with a complex machinery in which some often used parts are well oiled, while others less frequently used get roasted. From that perspective, brain aging is individual, ...

Thanks to a mouse watching clips from "The Matrix," scientists have created the largest functional map of a brain to date—a diagram of the wiring connecting 84,000 neurons as they fire off messages.