The Human Brain Project (HBP) is the EU’s £899 (€1billion) flagship science initiative working on developing human-machine hybrids. The ambitious enterprise’s primary aim is to simulate the human ...

The Human Brain Project (HBP) has announced the start of its final phase as an EU-funded FET Flagship. The European Commission has signed a grant agreement to fund the HBP with 150 million Euros from ...

About ten years ago, scientists began exploring an unconventional idea for studying the brain: using bioluminescent light to ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Modelling the human brain in a supercomputer and exploiting the “wonder material” graphene will be the two €1bn ...

If you want to learn how something works it helps to take it apart and put it back together again. For 10 years, neuroscientists have used this strategy on the brain of a rat to learn more about its ...

Founded by Professor Henry Markram in May 2005, the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne’s (EPFL) Blue Brain Project is attempting to reverse engineer the rodent brain (and ultimately, the human ...

The Human Brain Project aims to integrate what we know about the billions of cells inside our heads Senior neuroscientists have attacked the Human Brain Project, a billion-pound European Commission ...

Most of the time, you assume your brain is either “on” or “off,” awake or asleep. A new study shows something far more ...

A flagship project which launched a range of prototype computer platforms to support brain research - including one based at The University of Manchester - has just received an €89 million boost from ...

President Obama: "There's this enormous mystery waiting to be unlocked" US President Barack Obama has unveiled a new initiative to map the brain. Speaking at the White House, he announced an initial ...