610 Results From "understanding the brain"

Researchers have teamed up with Intel and Dell to build a massive supercomputer that can simulate networks at the scale of the human brain.
Computers

Scientists Preparing to Turn on Computer Intended to Simulate Entire Human Brain

By Victor Tangermann

A team of scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison claim to have 3D-printed functional human brain tissue for the first time.
Neuroscience and Brain

Scientists 3D Print Functional Human Brain Tissue

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers found that the brain "shifts upward and backward within the skull following spaceflight," a new wrinkle for future space travel.
NASA

Astronauts’ Brains Are Being Displaced

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers at the Jülich Research Centre in Germany are working on a simulation at the scale of the entire human brain.
Neuroscience and Brain

Scientists Preparing to Simulate Human Brain on Supercomputer

By Victor Tangermann

A researcher went back over 100 years of brain science that lead him to a radical conclusion about consciousness.
Neuroscience and Brain

Neuroscientist Says We’re All Wrong About Root of Consciousness in Our Brains

By Joe Wilkins

A second look at a coccocephalus wildi fossil first unearthed over 100 years could yield ancient insights into gaps of evolutionary history.
Brain

Scientists Discover World’s Oldest Preserved Vertebrate Brain

By Frank Landymore

Researchers found AI models trained on shortform, clickbait-y content experienced irreversible cognitive decline.
Artificial Intelligence

Training AI on “Brain Rot” Content Causes Lasting Cognitive Damage, New Paper Finds

By Rae Witte

New findings show that these diabetes and weight-loss drugs may actually change the way our bodies process alcohol.
RX and Medicine

Doctors Just Found Something Fascinating About What Happens When You Drink on Ozempic

By Rae Witte

New research out of Northwestern University found evidence that memories in the brain may be moving around in response to stimuli.
Neuroscience and Brain

Scientists Find Evidence That Memories in Brain Are Physically Moving Around

By Joe Wilkins

Researchers have found that the amount of microplastics in our brains is rising at an alarming rate.
Developments

The Weight of All the Plastic in Your Brain May Make You Queasy

By Victor Tangermann

Administering an amino acid used to treat high blood pressure also appears to reverse signs of dementia in mice.
Neuroscience and Brain

Scientists Intrigued by Old Drug That Reverses Signs of Alzheimer’s in Mice

By Frank Landymore

A new compound has been shown to reverse late stage Alzheimer's disease in lab mice, which gives millions of sufferers new cause for hope.
RX and Medicine

Alzheimer’s Fully Reversed in Mice, Scientists Say

By Sharon Adarlo

Biotech startup Cortical Labs claims to have taught living human brain cells how to play the seminal video game "Doom."
Neuroscience and Brain

Researchers Get Human Brain Cells Running Doom

By Victor Tangermann

Illustration of humanoid head breaking apart into fragments.
Ethics

Concern Grows That AI Is Damaging Users’ Cognitive Abilities

By Victor Tangermann

People who support authoritarianism have, according to a new study, something weird going on with their brains.
Brain

Scientists Scanned the Brains of Authoritarians and Found Something Weird

By Noor Al-Sibai

Meta has developed a device that reconstruct entire sentences simply by reading neural signals — without the need of a brain implant.
Neuroscience and Brain

Meta Appears to Have Invented a Device Allowing You to Type With Your Brain

By Frank Landymore

AI scientists are starting to study AI models as if they are novel biological organisms in order to understand their inner workings.
Anthropic

Scientists Now Studying AI as a Novel Biological Organism

By Sharon Adarlo

New research suggests that microplastics are contributing to a global rise in rates of depression and dementia.
Neuroscience and Brain

The Microplastics in Your Brain May Be Causing Mental Health Issues

By Frank Landymore

Scientists were astonished to find that recirculating preserving agents through a severed pig's head caused its brain to show signs of life.
Developments

Doctors Intrigued by Treatment That Makes Dead Brains Show Signs of Life

By Victor Tangermann

The AI industry is staking its future on language models. But LLMs, an expert argues, are fundamentally incapable of being intelligent.
Artificial Intelligence

Large Language Models Will Never Be Intelligent, Expert Says

By Frank Landymore

Latest

AI Is Slitting the Throat of the Journalism Industry
Artificial Intelligence

AI Is Slitting the Throat of the Journalism Industry

By Victor Tangermann

Despite broadcasting a barrage of lies with its faulty AI summaries feature, Apple has yet to meaningfully address the problem.
Artificial Intelligence

Apple’s AI Is Constantly Butchering Huge News Stories Sent to Millions of Users

By Victor Tangermann

Tech startup Channel 1 released a 20 minute demo of its news channel presented by uncanny AI news anchors.
Artificial Intelligence

Channel 1 Says It’ll Use AI-Generated News Anchors

By Frank Landymore

Readers Want Publications to Label AI-Generated Content
Artificial Intelligence

Readers Want Publications to Label AI-Generated Content

By Sharon Adarlo