This is where memory is essential to identity formation. The self is assembled not from everything that has happened to us, but from what the brain has chosen to preserve and retrieve.

In what ways does AI need humanity, and how can we define what makes us unique and essential in the face of this strange new technology?

Researchers have been studying tens of thousands of proteins and even more variations without a yardstick to compare their results.

Scientists have identified a neural feedback mechanism that helps determine when scratching an itch should stop.

Since taking office, President Donald Trump has significantly escalated the use of third-country deportations in an unprecedented expansion of a rarely used provision in U.S. immigration law. So far, ...