In 2004, science crossed a quiet line. Researchers confirmed that tiny scraps of plastic were not just drifting in oceans but entering living bodies. Two decades later, that discovery feels less like ...

Four major turning points around ages nine, 32, 66 and 83 create five broad eras of neural wiring over the average human ...

A new study highlights five key eras of human brain development, and they don’t align with age quite as one might expect.

A large study of brain scans shows that our neural wiring evolves through five major stages from birth to late old age. These ...

During the early thirties, the brain’s wiring pattern moves into what the researchers describe as the adult mode. This adult ...

A biocomputer harnesses biologically derived materials, such as DNA, proteins, or living tissue (e.g., lab-grown neurons), to ...

A transparent chip no larger than a stick of gum is helping scientists at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, ...

Millennials have long been painted as the generation who won’t grow up. But as a new study suggests the human brain has five ...

As prominent artificial intelligence (AI) researchers eye limits to the current phase of the technology, a different approach ...

The last turning point comes around age 83. The data for this final era is more limited, but the defining feature is a shift ...

During each of these phases, our brains show markedly different characteristics in their architecture, according to the new ...

The brain doesn't just recognize the human voice. A study by the University of Geneva (UNIGE) shows that certain areas of our ...