For years, one of the simplest explanations for human intelligence was also one of the biggest: the human brain has an ...

What makes the human brain capable of language, imagination, mathematics and invention? For many years, the prevailing view ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the big picture of artificial intelligence. The brain is unimaginably complex. Google and Harvard recently announced ...

While exploring the world around them, both humans and other animals continuously interpret information they pick up with ...

(Daisy-Daisy/iStock/Getty Images) Our understanding of the human brain is experiencing a watershed moment. The sewerage gates ...

For most of human evolution, the story of the brain seemed to move in one direction. It got bigger. That long rise is still there in the fossil record. But a new analysis argues that the trend did not ...

Octopuses, squid and cuttlefish may have evolved large brains because of the challenges posed by their environments rather ...