Your brain is currently expending about a fifth of your body's energy, and almost none of that is being used for what you're doing right now. Reading these words, feeling the weight of your body in a ...

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 ...

For decades, textbooks told students the human brain contained 100 billion neurons. That figure, repeated so often it became ...

Scientists are learning how the brain extracts discrete words from a continuous stream of sounds.

Despite its small size—it could sit in the palm of your hand—the zebra finch is a remarkable learner. A songbird native to Australia, it’s renowned for its ability to pick up new songs. That talent ...

Our brains are extraordinary. For centuries, humans have tried to understand how this complex organ works, leading to the development of psychology, a field dedicated to studying behavior, cognition, ...

What if one of the most powerful ways to support children’s mental health and self-esteem… was simply teaching them how their brains work? It may sound simple—and it can be life-changing. When ...

It might soon be "game over" for the video game controller. Yale researchers have developed a new kind of brain-computer ...