Biologists have long puzzled over why organisms with similar numbers of protein-coding genes can differ so dramatically in ...

Our mushy brains seem a far cry from the solid silicon chips in computer processors, but scientists have a long history of comparing the two. As Alan Turing put it in 1952: “We are not interested in ...

The evolution of brain processing capacity has traditionally been inferred from data on brain size. However, similarly sized brains of distantly related species can differ in the number and ...

Your brain is the most complex structure in the known universe, and it’s a masterpiece of efficiency. It calculates ...

The paper S. Holler et al., “Structure and function of a neocortical synapse,” Nature, doi:10.1038/s41586-020-03134-2, 2021. Brain cells use a language of ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about neuroscience and its intersection with technology. In 1994 Carl Sagan wrote a book entitled ‘Pale Blue Dot’. In it, ...