Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the big idea of making computers smart, and Machine Learning (ML) is the primary method used ...

Whether chatbots are truly “conscious” or not, they are an alien presence that has already begun to warp the world. The human ...

This work, combining behavioural genetics and calcium imaging, provides evidence for a form of learning in Drosophila that derives solely from direct or (optogenetically induced) phantom experience of ...

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

A groundbreaking study from the Mayo Clinic reveals how chronic insomnia can accelerate cognitive decline and increase the ...

Staring at the ceiling while the clock blinks 3am doesn’t only sap energy for the next day. A large, long-running US study of ...

In this important work, the authors present a new transformer-based neural network designed to isolate and quantify higher-order epistasis in protein sequences. They provide solid evidence that higher ...

Lab-grown brain tissue is too simple to experience consciousness, but as innovation progresses, neuroscientists question ...

Recent research suggests that polyphenols, present in everything from berries to dark chocolate, could have geroprotective ...