Donald Trump can change the temperature of a room with a sentence. One minute he is certain, the next he is backtracking. One day he is threatening, the next he is hinting at a deal. Even before ...

Published January 7 in the journal Nature, one paper tackled the age-old problem of nature’s construction with a bit of a twist: it suggests that living networks, like our brain, may use some of the ...

Your brain not only processes what you see but continuously makes predictions based on your experiences. This process may be less finetuned in people with autism. When someone throws a ball at you, ...

Neuroscientists are closing in on a striking idea: some brain cells appear to be tuned specifically to music, firing in patterns that let us anticipate the next note before it arrives. Instead of ...

As artificial intelligence (AI) becomes more common and sophisticated, its effects on human lives and societies raises new questions. A new paper published in The Quarterly Review of Biology posits ...

When we hear the word “twins”, we tend to think of two identical people who share physical traits, and perhaps certain behaviours or quirks. However, in the world of technology this word has a ...

O. Rose Broderick reports on the health policies and technologies that govern people with disabilities’ lives. Before coming to STAT, she worked at WNYC’s Radiolab and Scientific American, and her ...

New research suggests that auditory hallucinations in schizophrenia may come from a brain glitch that confuses inner thoughts ...

Mass General Brigham researchers developed an AI tool to accurately predict which patients will develop cognitive impairment over the next five years by analyzing brain wave patterns during sleep Mass ...