Many spine-bearing creatures, or vertebrates, have a curious bit of tissue deep in their brains called the pineal gland. It ...

The human brain's soft folds and ridges, arising in early development and continuing through the first 18 months of life, are ...

How do electrical signals become "about" something? Through purely physical processes, neural networks transform activity ...

Bosch Video Systems has introduced IVA Pro Context, a groundbreaking solution that advances video analytics into a new era of visual intelligence. Unlike traditional analytics that identify “what” is ...

Newborns track faces from birth. But what happens when screens replace human eyes? The answer may shape how the next ...

A new MIT study finds that somatostatin-expressing neurons follow a unique trajectory when forming connections in the brain’s visual cortex that may help establish the conditions needed for sensory ...

Human evolution’s biggest mystery, which emerged 15 years ago from a 60,000-year-old pinkie finger bone, finally started to unravel in 2025. Analysis of DNA extracted from the fossil electrified the ...

Bilal Haider receives funding from NIH and the Simons Foundation. Despite the nursery rhyme about three blind mice, mouse eyesight is surprisingly sensitive. Studying how mice see has helped ...

Artificial intelligence is revolutionizing how we create and interact with images. From swapping faces in videos to turning selfies into anime characters, AI-driven visual transformation tools are ...

This is an extract from Our Human Story, our newsletter about the revolution in archaeology. Sign up to receive it in your inbox every month. If I tried to recap all the new fossils, new methods and ...

Bears look like textbook mammals, but hidden in their evolutionary history are two dramatic departures from the standard blueprint of growth and adaptation. For the first time, scientists have ...