Most people don’t realize these everyday habits are working against their own capacity for brilliance. Here’s how they might ...

A.I. has always been compared to human intelligence, but that may not be the right way to think about it. What it does well ...

A study published in Nature Communications in January 2026 found that general intelligence does not reside in any single brain region but instead arises from the coordinated activity of networks ...

Artificial intelligence systems designed to physically emulate natural brains can simulate human brain activity before being trained, according to new research from Johns Hopkins University. “The work ...

Engineers at Northwestern University have taken a striking leap toward merging machines with the human brain by printing ...

Will artificial intelligence ever be able to reason, learn and solve problems at levels comparable to humans? Four experts at the University of California San Diego believe the answer is yes – and ...

Have you ever heard the expression, “Use it or lose it”? Nowhere does this idiom apply more than to the brain. Sure, the brain isn’t a muscle, but to keep it sharp, it still needs consistent neural ...

Megan Molteni reports on discoveries from the frontiers of genomic medicine, neuroscience, and reproductive tech. She joined STAT in 2021 after covering health and science at WIRED. You can reach ...

Will AI need a body to come close to human-like intelligence? But these aren’t just speculative questions anymore. Roboticists today are wrestling with the question of whether artificial intelligence ...

There are several everyday behaviors that signal whether or not a person is highly intelligent. How they respond to learning new things and embracing different perspectives can say a lot about their ...

By Ryan Samii, Head of Product Innovation, Harvey. Terence Tao, the world’s greatest mathematician, recently suggested we’re ...