"Once damaged, these hairs never grow back. You have around 3,500, and that is all you'll have throughout your entire life...

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In his new BBC show, Jim Al-Khalili journeys through hundreds of millions of years of brain evolution. Live Science spoke to ...

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 ...

Learning to code doesn’t require new brain systems—it builds on the ones we already use for logic and reasoning.

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A team at University of Massachusetts Amherst developed artificial neurons that fire in the same voltage range as living cells. Silicon and biology can now speak the same electrical language.