Human brains go through five distinct phases of life, each defined by its own set of characteristics, according to a new ...

Researchers around the world are studying how the human brain achieves its extraordinary complexity. A team at the Central ...

The human brain is not a hard-wired machine but a malleable organ that is regularly re-shaping itself. Neuroscientists at the ...

Study maps five major eras of brain wiring from birth to old age, revealing the key turning points that shape how we learn, ...

An analysis of brains at various stages of Alzheimer's found that neurons called inhibitory neurons are the first to be affected by the disease. It takes decades for a person's brain to be disabled by ...

He lived hundreds of thousands of years ago, eking out an existence in what is today central China. Sporting a squat neck and a big brain, he likely wielded tools made of stone and hunted or scavenged ...

In 1990, an ancient human skull was unearthed in China’s Hubei Province that was so badly deformed during fossilization that it was hard to gauge its significance. A new analysis now indicates that ...

A reanalysis of a one-million-year-old human skull found in China is challenging the established timeline of human evolution, and suggests a new branch of the human family tree, as well as a possible ...

Moving a prosthetic arm. Controlling a speaking avatar. Typing at speed. These are all things that people with paralysis have learnt to do using brain–computer interfaces (BCIs) — implanted devices ...

Skull from Hubei Province is about a million years old Researchers conducted digital reconstruction on skull Study has implications for Homo sapiens lineage timeline Sept 25 (Reuters) - In 1990, an ...