Where children live and what their household’s socioeconomic status is leaves a mark on their brains, a new study in Science finds. The results suggest that the fewer opportunities a child’s zip code ...

Scientists are learning how the brain extracts discrete words from a continuous stream of sounds. UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #1: (Speaking Japanese). SUMMERS: Unless you speak Japanese, that probably sounded ...

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A medical startup says it is using disembodied human brains in new drug development research targeting neurodegenerative diseases, a practice that may draw unsettling comparisons to the science ...

For most of human evolution, the story of the brain seemed to move in one direction: up. Over millions of years, our ancestors’ brains expanded from ape-sized organs into the relatively oversized ...

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It was personal when Pat Schultz enrolled her German shepherd-poodle mix in the Dog Aging Project. Her husband was suffering from Alzheimer's at the time, and the project her dog was participating in ...

Put “Alien” on standby — because science may be inching a tiny step closer to real-life cryosleep. In a breakthrough that sounds ripped straight from a Ridley Scott flick, researchers in Germany have ...

JetBrains has introduced Tracy, an AI tracing library for the Kotlin and Java languages. Announced March 11 and accessible from GitHub, Tracy helps developers trace, monitor, and evaluate AI-powered ...

A look inside the brains of extraordinarily sharp elderly people reveals clues about their unusual abilities. Deep in these exceptional brains were signs of what some scientists believe to be newborn ...

The global ambition to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050 is driving intense research into low-carbon energy vectors to mitigate the climate impact of the dominant use of fossil fuels. This challenge ...

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