To this day, in the known universe, only one example exists of a system capable of general-purpose intelligence. That system ...

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The potential to create personalised digital “twins” of your brain and body is a hot topic in neuroscience and medicine today ...

By scanning the brains of mice throughout their lifespans, scientists at Columbia's Zuckerman Institute and the University of ...

What unique processes conspire to create a healthy, functional human brain? How can we be so genetically similar to, say, chimpanzees, and yet be light-years more sophisticated cognitively and ...

Is language core to thought, or a separate process? For 15 years, the neuroscientist Ev Fedorenko has gathered evidence of a language network in the human brain — and has found some similarities to ...