A pair of monkeys staring at colored shapes in a Princeton lab may have brought you closer to understanding how your own mind ...

Human brains learn new tasks quickly by reusing mental building blocks, a flexibility scientists are now studying to improve ...

New research reveals that the brain’s flexibility comes from its ability to reuse “cognitive building blocks” across many tasks, allowing rapid adaptation with minimal relearning.

Did you know one of your favourite toys as a child had a history worth hundreds of years? Building blocks have always played an important part in education, childhood development, and creative play ...

Nanoscience can arrange minute molecular entities into nanometric patterns in an orderly manner using self-assembly protocols. Scientists have functionalized a simple rod-like building block with ...