They say that absolute size is meaningless to our brain. "We gauge size by context," Martinez-Conde and Macknik, authors of ...

Blind and sighted people can learn to use echolocation after 10 weeks of training, according to research from Durham ...

We tend to think of the brain as being made up of highly specialised cells, but a study in mice suggests that most neurons ...

A programmable terahertz chip combines penetrative sensing, nonvolatile optical encoding, and hardware preprocessing, classifying vehicle motion with 92.3% accuracy and recovering encoded information ...

It's something we know that humans can do too – and it takes less training than you might think. A study published in PLOS ...

The human brain continuously makes predictions about future events. This process helps humans process familiar stimuli while ...

Learn more about the differences in brain structure for those born blind and how a new study is changing our understanding of ...

Players can return high-powered serves with astonishing accuracy because of the brain's ability to predict the future ...

Whether you’re a player or a spectator, the ability to see a tennis ball travelling that quickly across the court is a marvel ...

Because AI chatbots are given to appearing impressively fluent and empathetic, they can make us believe they actually have a consciousness that can understand our words. But they argue that even if a ...

Here’s one of the more unsettling schemes to recently emerge from Silicon Valley: human clones grown without a conscious brain. At least one biotech start-up reportedly has quixotic ambitions of ...