How do we learn new things? Neurobiologists using cutting-edge visualization techniques have revealed how changes across our synapses and neurons unfold. The findings depict how information is ...

When we learn a new skill, our brain forms new connections between the neurons. The more we do the new skill, the stronger ...

What actually happens inside the brain when learning works? Drawing on neuroscience, this breakdown of Stanislas Dehaene’s ...

The team pinpointed the exact moment mice learned a new skill by observing the activity of individual neurons, confirming earlier work that suggested animals are fast learners that purposely test the ...

Handwriting requirements were cut from school curricula around the world. Now it’s looping back, riding on a wave of evidence.

Scientists are beginning to show that learning is not exclusive to neurons and synapses. At the scale of billionths of a meter, tiny channels called nanopores are starting to display brain-like ...

New science explains why children outlearn AI in language—and what it means for tech, childhood, and the future of learning. (CREDIT: Shutterstock) Children are astonishing language learners. Long ...

How do electrical signals become "about" something? Through purely physical processes, neural networks transform activity ...