Your Brain’s ‘Dark Matter’ Could Rewrite What We Know About Your Consciousness, Behavior, and Decision-Making

And yet we know surprisingly little about them. While the cellular biology of this critical organ has been mapped out, ...

Our Brain Is 300,000 Years Old—Our Inbox Is Not

The brain you are reading this with is the same brain that tracked prey across a savanna 100,000 years ago. Same working ...

Researchers may have discovered the key to understanding human consciousness

For centuries, people have wondered what separates being awake from being asleep, dreaming, or unconscious. Scientists have searched for clues throughout the brain, hoping to identify the signals ...
Inverse

The Real-Life Study Of Brain Monitoring At Work Gives Serious Severance Vibes

Despite all the attention on technologies that reduce the hands-on role of humans at work — such as self-driving vehicles, robot workers, artificial intelligence, and so on — researchers in the field ...

Your brain is not built for multitasking: Neurologist explains what it does to attention span

Quit multitasking and focus on giving one task your undivided attention at a time.
Forbes

To Build Stronger AI, We Need To Better Understand The Human Brain

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 ...
Newsweek

The Life and Work of a Brain Surgeon, as Told From the Front Line

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Our central nervous system is made up, it turns out, of gray and white ...