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A new study sheds light on how the brain tunes into relevant changes in natural sound to optimize behavior.

One of the most exciting and frightening outcomes of technological advancement is the potential to merge our minds with machines. If achieved, this would profoundly boost our cognitive capabilities. More importantly, how...

The primate was found 'mummified' in a ceiling duct.

Forget all those pouting celebrities. Researchers say people are perceived to be cooler when they smile.

A new study reports people who sit down too much during middle to older age show signs of thinning in the medial temporal cortex, an area of the brain associated with the formation of new memories.

A new study reveals imagining visual stimuli can alter our perception of where auditory stimuli may be coming from.

People who think their beliefs are superior to other people's view points are prone to overestimating what they actually know, a new study reports.

Things are getting real for researchers in the UC Santa Barbara John Martinis/Google group. They are making good on their intentions to declare supremacy in a tight global race to build the first quantum machine to outpe...

For the first time, we've made a molecule by pressing two atoms together to make them bond on command. This could help build better qubits for quantum computers

Have you ever played with a pocket-sized laser, wondering how far its light would travel? Could you, a naughty student inside a classroom on Earth, annoy a poor substitute teacher on Mars by waggling your laser pointer a...

Life on Venus has been thought impossible due to its acidic atmosphere. But acid-loving microbes are all over Earth, so they could also live in its toxic clouds

Researchers used deep learning to analyze brain cells by exposing the algorithm to both stained and unstained images. The program was able to identify where cells were located in culture dishes by learning to spot the ce...

Researchers report Metformin, one of the most widely prescribed drugs for diabetes, helped reduce symptoms associated with nicotine withdrawal in animal models.

It may sound like a futuristic device out of a spy novel, a computer the size of a pinhead, but according to new research from the University of New Hampshire, it might be a reality sooner than once thought. Researchers ...

For monkey-eating chimps, the youngsters' brains are the best part.

The pancreas helps regulate blood sugar levels. It is also an important aid in digestion.

Here's a brainteaser: Do the 520-million-year-old fossils of an ancient, bug-like creature actually show a silhouette of its brains? Or are these blobby shapes in its head merely fossilized bacteria?

Mark Zuckerberg spent two days answering mostly soft questions from the US Congress, but some of his answers were revealing, says James Ball

Will we ever be able to truly feel like we're inhabiting a virtual world? A brain stimulation twist on the classic rubber hand illusion suggests we can

The seats of memory TWO papers with starkly contradictory conclusions, published three weeks apart, have reignited debate about whether adult human brains can grow new neurons. For over a century, neuroscientists believe...

SCIENCE fiction is filled with visions of galactic empires. How people would spread from star system to star system, and communicate with each other in ways that could hold such empires together once they had done so, is...

The world's first ranking of tsunami risks for major tourist beaches shows popular spots like Hawaii and Bali are most in danger