When we learn a new skill, the brain has to decide—cell by cell—what to change. New research from MIT suggests it can do that ...

A new study found that deep sleep weakens breathing brain timing in movement circuits and changes internal brain ...

Harvard Medical School neurobiologist David Ginty has won The Brain Prize 2026 for his career-long research on our sense of ...

Researchers at UC San Francisco have achieved a remarkable breakthrough in brain-computer interface (BCI) technology, enabling individuals with paralysis to control robotic devices through thought ...

Summary: It’s a common reflex: to hear a faint sound better, we squeeze our eyes shut. However, new research suggests this strategy actually backfires in noisy environments. By monitoring brain ...

Photoreceptors are specialized cells in the eye that convert light energy into neural signals. Several diseases that cause irreversible vision loss, including age-related macular degeneration, ...

Meta is testing artificial intelligence systems that can turn patterns of brain activity into text, effectively letting people “type” with their thoughts while lying inside a scanner. The work is ...