Human language is structured to minimize mental effort by using familiar, predictive patterns grounded in lived experience. Human languages are remarkably complex systems. About 7,000 languages are ...

The world’s most powerful supercomputers can now run simulations of billions of neurons, and researchers hope such models ...

You wake up to your partner telling you that you had an entire conversation with someone named Bob last night, or your roommate mentions you were giving what sounded like a presentation in your sleep.

Scientists can now watch a conversation unfold between brain cells in real time, seeing each chemical message pass from one neuron to another in the span of mere milliseconds. This breakthrough in ...

Communication between species has a long and wishful history, beginning with myths, legends, and stories like those of King Solomon and Doctor Dolittle. In the past century, that history has blossomed ...

Pea-size clusters of human cells called brain organoids inspire both hope and fear. Experts are debating how scientists can responsibly use these bits of gray matter.