The black box of the human brain is starting to open. Although animal models are instrumental in shaping our understanding of the mammalian brain, scarce human data is uncovering important ...

A research team has identified, for the first time in humans, and in a realistic environment, a key neurophysiological mechanism in memory formation: ripple-type brain waves—high-frequency electrical ...

Ways the Aging Brain Differs Between Men and Women The human brain is a complex organ, responsible for controlling everything ...

Researchers at The University of Manchester's National Graphene Institute have developed a new class of programmable nanofluidic memristors that mimic the memory functions of the human brain, paving ...

There is a special section of the human brain where stuff like this lives: Sniffing it and pulling it out still confuses me.

A new study challenges the familiar idea that the brain evolved by stacking rational systems on top of primitive emotional ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the big picture of artificial intelligence. The brain is unimaginably complex. Google and Harvard recently announced ...

As a neuroscientist, I am not afraid of AI. Source: Randa Marzouk/Unsplash In fact, I would love to see it improve faster. One major obstacle to a significant leap is that AI is developed by engineers ...

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A new study (Cardenas et al., 2026) suggests that just 20 minutes of moderate cardio may trigger brain activity tied to learning and memory. Researchers found that a single cycling session sparked ...