How did the human brain become so much larger than that of our closest evolutionary relatives? Part of the answer lies not in ...

Millions of years after an infection, viral DNA still influences how developing chimpanzee brain cells behave.

As winter smog worsens, scientists are investigating how fine particles, metals and other pollutants may affect brain health, ...

What Bruner calls “braking,” the Yale neuroscientist Amy Arnsten calls “regulation”—specifically, calcium regulation, which ...

Pandemics are scourges, but one that afflicted primates millions of years ago separated the evolution of chimpanzees from ...

Neuroscientists have made a major advance in modeling the human brain in mice, offering a new way to study conditions like ...

Researchers at the University of Wisconsin–Madison have built a cross-species atlas of gene regulatory networks governing ...

A repetitive stretch of noncoding DNA helps regulate a gene active in human but not chimpanzee forebrain progenitor cells.

Scientists have long tried to understand the human brain by comparing it to other primates. Researchers are still trying to understand what makes our brain different from our closest relatives. Our ...

With the aid of science and technology, efforts are now underway to understand the human brain in greater detail than ever ...

We infer what animals experience from how they behave. But can we rely on those same inferences after substantially altering ...

IntroductionRecently, while studying AWS, I had a strange thought. Couldn't we upload the human brain to AWS? Store brain ...