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RFK Jr. said there was a possible connection between video games and a rise in gun violence without providing evidence.

RFK Junior Says Mass Shootings Are Being Caused by Video Games

By Frank Landymore

After less than a month of being exposed to microplastics in their diet, the mice developed clear dementia symptoms.

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Lab Mice Exposed to Microplastics Show Signs of Dementia

By Frank Landymore

Researchers are working on a pill that could allow patients' brains to recover from a traumatic injury or stroke.

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Scientists Intrigued by Pill That May Heal Brain After Stroke or Brain Injury

By Victor Tangermann

A clinical psychologist warns of the powerful delusions induced by AI chatbots, but thinks "psychosis" doesn't quite describe what's going on.

Psychologist Says AI Is Causing Never-Before-Seen Types of Mental Disorder

By Frank Landymore

In the wake of the Catholic school shooting that killed two children and maimed several others, RFK Jr. is suggesting SSRIs are to blame.

The Government Is Preparing to Take Away Your SSRIs

By Noor Al-Sibai

Are cases of "AI psychosis" caused by manipulative "dark patterns" employed in chatbots like ChatGPT? Some experts say yes.

AI Chatbots Are Trapping Users in Bizarre Mental Spirals for a Dark Reason, Experts Say

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A California family is suing OpenAI over the death by suicide of their teenage son, who'd confided in ChatGPT about his suicidality.

After Their Son’s Suicide, His Parents Were Horrified to Find His Conversations With ChatGPT

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Evidence shows that walking in nature can instantly boost your attention span — but scientists can't agree why.

Scientists Can’t Figure Out Why Just Walking In Nature Appears to Quickly Heal Your Brain Rot

By Frank Landymore

A new analysis found that a ton of mental health problems are associated with AI — and more than two dozen chatbots are implicated.

Psychiatrists Warn That Talking to AI Is Leading to Severe Mental Health Issues

By Noor Al-Sibai

New advances in brain-computer interface (BCI) technology may make speech for those who've lost the ability to do easier than ever before.

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Scientists Say They’ve Found a Way to Vocalize the “Inner Voices” of People Who Can’t Speak

By Noor Al-Sibai

A troubling new IVF startup claims it can predict a child's IQ and risk of disease based on the parent's race and genetic testing.

New IVF Startup Claims It Can Predict an Embryo’s IQ

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

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Scientists Find Evidence That Memories in Brain Are Physically Moving Around

A proposal put forward by Representative Gluesenkamp Perez would require members of congress to pass mental acuity exams in order to serve.

New Law Would Force Aging Members of Congress to Take Cognitive Tests

A majority neuroscientists think memories live on in the brains of the dead, and a large number believe these memories could be extracted.

Startling Percentage of Neuroscientists Say We Could Extract Memories From Dead Brains

By Sharon Adarlo

Amazon is building a vast complex of AI data centers on top of 1,200 acres of former cropland in Indiana for a huge and powerful AI model.

Amazon Is Building a Gigantic Computing Facility to Match the Human Brain

By Sharon Adarlo

Research reveals that cognitive ability in infants can predict their future intelligence when they grow up to be adults.

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If Your Baby Seems Kinda Dumb at Seven Months, Scientists Have Terrible News About What’ll Happen When It Grows Into an Adult

By Sharon Adarlo

Waymo, Google's robotaxi company, is being sued for alleged safety failures that resulted in a San Francisco cyclist's injuries.

Bicyclist Says a Waymo Robotaxi Smashed Her Into a Second Waymo Robotaxi, Causing Brain and Spine Injury

By Noor Al-Sibai

Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have found some startling results in the brain scans of people using ChatGPT.

Researchers Scanned the Brains of ChatGPT Users and Found Something Deeply Alarming

By Noor Al-Sibai

Watching a bunch of porn has some major side effects — and no, we're not just talking about stained bedsheets.

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Scientists Scanned the Brains of Hardcore Gooners and Found Something Ominous

By Noor Al-Sibai

CEOs are increasingly turning to artificial intelligence tools to create avatars of themselves that can deal with mundane tasks.

CEOs Are Creating AI Copies of Themselves That Are Spouting Braindead Hallucinations to Their Confused Underlings

By Victor Tangermann

Pfizer's Depo-Provera shot has been linked to brain tumors — and hundreds of women are suing the pharmaceutical giant over it.

400 Women Are Suing Pfizer Over Birth Control Shot That Allegedly Gave Them Brain Tumors

By Noor Al-Sibai

Researchers have developed an "e-tattoo" that can accurate predict when your brain is getting overloaded from work.

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Scientists Want You to Ink an Electronic Tattoo On Your Forehead So Your Boss Can Detect Your Mental State

By Frank Landymore

The neuroscience startup owned by Valve cofounder Gabe Newell is set to unveil its first brain chip this year.

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Gabe Newell’s New Company Is Getting Ready to Put Chips in Your Brain

By Frank Landymore

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

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The Microplastics in Your Brain May Be Causing Mental Health Issues

By Frank Landymore

Researchers made small tweaks to the molecular structure of LSD to see if it could be turned into an effective brain-healing treatment.

Scientists Tweaked LSD’s Molecular Structure and Created a Wild New Brain Drug

By Victor Tangermann

The media giant Gannett is using AI to "automatically generate" content about lottery scores and tickets in local newspapers across the US.

Gannett Is Using AI to Pump Brainrot Gambling Content Into Newspapers Across the Country

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The third patient of Elon Musk's brain computer interface company Neuralink is using Musk's AI chatbot Grok to speed up communication.

Nonverbal Neuralink Patient Is Using Brain Implant and Grok to Generate Replies

By Victor Tangermann

A recent letter by democratic senators is sounding the alarm on data harvesting by companies developing brain implants.

Brain Implant Companies Apparently Have an Extremely Dirty Secret

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

Scientists Scanned the Brains of Authoritarians and Found Something Weird

By Noor Al-Sibai

Scientists have figured out, using statistics, exactly how often you should have sex to safeguard against depression.

Scientists Identify Ideal Amount of Boinking for Maximum Mental Health

By Noor Al-Sibai

Boozers beware: a new study has found links between heavy alcohol consumption, brain damage, and even earlier death.

Doctors Just Found Something Horrifying in the Brains of Heavy Alcohol Drinkers

By Noor Al-Sibai

Using the DNA of the late musician Alvin Lucier, a team has created an "in-vitro brain" that still creates music with its electrical signals.

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Musician Who Died in 2021 Resurrected as Clump of Brain Matter, Now Composing New Music

By Frank Landymore

Scientists have found, for the first time, proof of just how bad alcohol impairs cognition — even when sober.

Test Shows Alcohol Causing Long-Term Brain Damage

By Noor Al-Sibai

A study in Finland found that kids with pediatric brain injuries, mild concussions included, were significantly less likely to go to college.

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After a Single Concussion, Kids Are 15 Percent Less Likely to Go to College

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Researchers found that accelerating the brain's waste removal system could have tremendous implications for our memory.

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New “Brain Cleaning” Technique Improves Memory in Aging Mice

By Victor Tangermann

Windmills have a very prominent hater in the White House — and a new study suggests that President Donald Trump is spewing malarkey.

Now That Trump Has Driven The Evil Woke From Science, Researchers Reveal the True Effects of Windmills on the Human Brain

By Noor Al-Sibai

Researchers blocked the internet access of participants' phones for two weeks, producing an astounding boost to their mental health.

Blocking the Internet on People’s Phones for Two Weeks Led to Profound Changes in Mental Health and Attention Span

By Frank Landymore

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

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

By Frank Landymore

An unusual number of great white sharks are turning up dead, and scientists are struggling to understand why.

Great White Sharks Are Suddenly Washing Up Dead With Swollen Brains

By Frank Landymore

A groundbreaking brain implant has allowed a paralyzed man to control a virtual drone and fly it through an obstacle course.

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Paralyzed Man Can Now Fly Drone Using Brain Implant

By Frank Landymore

The latest research suggests that addictively consuming mind-numbing digital content may almost literally be rotting our brains.

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“Brain Rot” Is Poisoning Our Minds

By Frank Landymore

Researchers at Caltech have calculated exactly how fast the human brain processes information — and the numbers are hilariously low.

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You’ll Laugh When You Hear How Many Bits Per Second the Human Brain Processes… Once Your Sluggish Human Brain Finally Comprehends It, That Is

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists studied the cognitive behavior of astronauts who have spent six months on board the ISS and made some fascinating discoveries.

Something Is Malfunctioning With Astronauts’ Brains

By Victor Tangermann

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Scientists Teach Rats to Drive Tiny Cars, Discover That They Love Revving the Engine

By Noor Al-Sibai

A political scion who has bragged about having a brain worm is slated to be the United States' next secretary of Health and Human Services.

Man Who Bragged About Having a Literal Brain Worm to Be Appointed Head of the US Health Department

By Noor Al-Sibai

This Close-Up Video of SpaceX’s Starship Booster Being Caught by a Tower Will Melt Your Puny Earthling Brains

This Close-Up Video of SpaceX’s Starship Booster Being Caught by a Tower Will Melt Your Puny Earthling Brains

By Frank Landymore

Brett Favre, ex-Green Bay Packers quarterback, said he has the brain disorder Parkinson's disease, likely caused by countless concussions.

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Brett Favre Says He Has Parkinson’s, Likely From Countless Concussions

By Sharon Adarlo

About a third of surveyed former NFL players in a new study think they have CTE, which stands for chronic traumatic encephalopathy.

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One Out of Three Former NFL Players Think They Have CTE, the Traumatic Brain Disease Linked to Murders and Suicides

By Sharon Adarlo

A biologist with the US government's research and development arm is working on a radical new approach to anti-aging treatments.

Government Scientist Investigating Whether Aging Parts of Your Brain Can Be Replaced With Cloned Tissue

By Noor Al-Sibai

In a tweet, Neuralink patient Noland Arbaugh revealed that he's spending roughly three hours a day learning French and Japanese.

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First Neuralink Patient Using It to Learn New Languages

By Victor Tangermann

Neuralink's second human participant is already playing first-person shooter game "Counter-Strike 2" by using his mind for controls.

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Latest Patient Implanted With Neuralink Is Using It to Play “Counter-Strike 2”

By Victor Tangermann

The bad news: scientists have discovered two new dementia risk factors. The good news: these new risk factors are "modifiable."

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Two New Dementia Risk Factors Have Been Uncovered — And You Can Actually Do Something About Them

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A group of experts are saying that Trump's speech patterns have deteriorated in recent years, a big sign of worsening cognitive health.

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Analysis of Trump’s Speech Finds Signs of Cognitive Decline

By Sharon Adarlo

Scientists have found a way to control the minds of mice by manipulating nanoparticle-activated "switches" inside their brains with magnets.

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Scientists Use Nanoparticles to Remote Control Brains of Mice

By Victor Tangermann

As scientists continue brains in labs, one neuroscientist is asking the hard question: can lab-grown brains ever truly be conscious?

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Scientists Are Growing Brains in Labs. Could They Become Conscious?

By Noor Al-Sibai

The scientists pulled this karaoke stunt to embarrass their participants, and ultimately, to understand why we blush.

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Devious Scientists Scan People’s Brains While They Watch Video of Themselves Singing Karaoke

By Frank Landymore

Researchers have found that people who moved a lot in their childhood and early teen years are more likely to be depressed as adults.

If Your Family Moved a Lot as a Kid, We Have Bad News About Your Mental Health

By Noor Al-Sibai

His findings showed that psilocybin "desynchronized" the brain, but also produced subtle, lasting effects in boosting plasticity.

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Scientist Takes High Dose of Psilocybin, Clambers Into MRI Machine to Scan His Own Brain

By Frank Landymore

An analysis of over 100,000 medical records found that Ozempic users had a far lower dementia risk than those that took other diabetes drugs.

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Ozempic Linked to Significantly Reduced Dementia Risk

By Frank Landymore

Night owls or people who do their best work at night have higher cognitive function than people who are morning birds.

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Night Owls Have Superior Cognitive Function, Study Finds

By Sharon Adarlo

The White House revealed in a letter yesterday that a Parkinson's disease specialist visited President Joe Biden repeatedly.

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White House Admits Parkinson’s Specialist Repeatedly Evaluated President Biden

By Sharon Adarlo

Scientists in Japan reversed the signs of Alzheimer’s in lab mice by restoring the healthy function of neuron synapses in their brains.

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Scientists Reverse Alzheimer’s Synapse Damage in Mice

By Sharon Adarlo

The writer of a new Donald Trump biography said the ex-president couldn't remember him on their second meeting.

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Journalist Says Trump Suffered “Severe Memory Problems” During Extensive Interviews

By Noor Al-Sibai

The neurons of our brains may exist at a critical point between two states of matter that can't be distinguished,

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Human Neurons Are Stuck Between Shifting Phases of Matter, Scientists Say

By Frank Landymore