The universe has no brain. It has no gray matter, no nervous system, no neurons firing electrical impulses—and yet, that ...

From a cubic millimeter of brain tissue, scientists have constructed a precise, 3D map of the activity in a mouse’s brain, detailing 84,000 neurons and more than 500 million synapses.

Do our spirits live on after death? To the surprise of some, many scientists and philosophers argue that there is evidence ...

Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries ... However, he said mapping the human brain connectome in similar synaptic resolution would be a dramatically more difficult endeavor.

Is the human brain, with all its problem-solving prowess and creative ability, powerful enough to understand itself? Nothing in the known universe (with the exception of the universe itself ...

Panprotopsychism claims that the fundamental building blocks of reality have properties that are the precursors to consciousness. It has all the problems of panpsychism.

Although this volume represents a tiny fraction of the mouse brain (and an even tinier fraction of the human brain), it pushes ... of matter and the universe, the investment in MICrONS will ...