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A team of scientists has grown "minibrains" in a lab with the eventual goal of linking them together to form super-efficient "biocomputers."

Neuroscience and Brain

Scientists Working to Build Biocomputers Out of Lab-Grown “Minibrains”

By Victor Tangermann

Bruce Willis' family has announced that the "Die Hard" star has been diagnosed with dementia in their first update in just over a year.

Neuroscience and Brain

Bruce Willis Has Been Diagnosed With Frontotemporal Dementia

By Noor Al-Sibai

Research has linked brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) to bizarre, unpredictable cognitive changes — some that might completely alter your sense of self.

Neuroscience and Brain

Brain Chips Like Neuralink Cause Strange Cognitive Changes, Doctors Say

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The US Department of Transportation is investigating Neuralink for allegedly moving disease contaminated brain hardware without proper precautions.

Neuroscience and Brain

Neuralink Under Investigation for Contaminated Brain Hardware

By Frank Landymore

John Carmack — Doom creator, father of virtual reality, and former Meta employee — believes that we're on the cusp of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI).

Former Facebook Exec Says AI Will Soon Simulate the Human Brain

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Many advances in robotic prosthetics focus on rehabilitation. But what about controlling a supplementary limb? Enter the world of movement augmentation.

Scientists Working on Third Arm You Control Using Your Brain

By Frank Landymore

A team of researchers at the University of Pennsylvania has inserted human neurons into the brains of rats with damaged visual cortices.

Neuroscience and Brain

Blobs of Human Brain Implanted in Rat Brains Replace Damaged Vision Functionality

By Victor Tangermann

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

Scientists Discover World’s Oldest Preserved Vertebrate Brain

By Frank Landymore

Nita A. Farahany, a "legal ethicist" on futuristic tech, says that tech is already here, and that we need to make the choice of "using it well."

Duke Professor Welcomes the “Promising” Future of Employers Reading Your Brain

By Frank Landymore

Vivek Murthy is worried that kids are fighting a losing battle against social media giants that are trying to maximize their easily earned engagement.

Neuroscience and Brain

US Surgeon General Warns Against 13-Year-Old Using Social Media

By Frank Landymore

A team of Stanford scientists claims to have come up with a new brain-computer interface (BCI) that can decode speech at up to 62 words per minute.

Neuroscience and Brain

Scientists Say New Brain-Computer Interface Lets Users Transmit 62 Words Per Minute

By Victor Tangermann

Considering that the zombie fungus that infects human brains in The Last of Us is real, and currently zombifies insects, it's worth asking.

Neuroscience and Brain

Bad News: the Horrific Zombie Fungus in “The Last of Us” Is Real

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

According to a new study, people might be a little too willing to believe existential personality label-makers — particularly in machine form.

Neuroscience and Brain

People Thought an AI Was Brilliantly Analyzing Their Personalities, But It Was Actually Giving Out Feedback Randomly

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

New research suggests that the T-Rex didn't just have loads of teeth, but plenty of neurons — enough to make them the "primates of their time."

In Terrifying News, Big Brained T-Rex May Have Been as Smart as Primates

By Frank Landymore

DMT is said to produce strangely similar trips for many who take it — and a new version of the drug may help people stay there longer.

Neuroscience and Brain

Startup Trying to Test Whether People on DMT Experience a Shared Alien Universe

By Noor Al-Sibai

It's no secret that social media use can change adult brain anatomy — but a new study suggests that it may affect adolescent brains differently.

Neuroscience and Brain

Scientists Find Something Strange in Brain Scans of Kids Hooked on Social Media

By Noor Al-Sibai

New research suggests that stranded dolphins may be tragically suffering from Alzheimer's disease — a possible boon to the "sick leader" theory.

Neuroscience and Brain

Scientists Have an Extremely Grim Theory About Stranded Dolphins

By Frank Landymore

Elon Musk is claiming that he will have Neuralink implants in human brains in six months — but that claim should be taken with a grain of salt.

As Elon Musk Promises Human Brain Implants in 6 Months, Remember He Promised a Million Tesla Robotaxis by 2020

By Noor Al-Sibai

One guy took more than 40,000 ecstasty pills over the course of nine years and lived to tell the tale — and his story has become a cautionary party legend.

Neuroscience and Brain

Doctors Fascinated by Man Who Took 40,000 Ecstasy Pills and Experienced Years of Terrible Symptoms

By Noor Al-Sibai

Brain-controlled wheelchairs using a noninvasive a non-invasive interface allowed several paralyzed patients to control wheelchairs with up to 98% accuracy.

Neuroscience and Brain

Paralyzed People Successfully Test Brain-Controlled Electric Wheelchairs

By Frank Landymore

While shooting his new TV show, Chris Hemsworth underwent genetic testing that revealed he was carrying two copies of a gene strongly linked to Alzheimer's.

Neuroscience and Brain

Chris Hemsworth Reveals Grim Genetic Test Results, Will Take Break From Acting

By Frank Landymore

Researchers have come up with a vaccine that can block the effects fentanyl has on the brain in mice, which is being hailed as a "game changer."

New Vaccine Blocks Fentanyl in Brains of Rats

By Victor Tangermann

researchers claim in a study published last month in Cells Report Physical Sciences that they've developed a way to charge the implants solely through breathing movements — potentially making them completely self-sufficient.

Neuroscience and Brain

Scientists Build Brain Implant Powered Completely by User’s Breathing

By Frank Landymore

A team of neuroscientists at the University of Wisconsin claim to have found a way to control how high mice can get on cocaine.

Neuroscience and Brain

Scientists Found a Way to Control How High Mice Got on Cocaine

By Victor Tangermann

A psychological researcher may be close to "Eternal Sunshining" memories of romantic betrayals using a surprising medication regimen.

Neuroscience and Brain

Scientists Say They Can Damage Memories of Being Cheated On

By Noor Al-Sibai

Researchers claim to have built a "decoder" algorithm that can reconstruct what somebody is thinking just by monitoring their brain activity using MRI.

Neuroscience and Brain

Scientists Say They’ve Figured Out a Way to Read Thoughts Using an MRI Machine

By Victor Tangermann

A team of researchers at Stanford Medicine have created what they hope will one day be a life-saving treatment for brain cancer: a wireless brain implant.

Doctors Test Brain Implant That Destroys Tumors

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

In Scientists were, for the first time, able to show that 800,000 living brain cells trapped in a petri dish can be taught how to play the videogame Pong.

Neuroscience and Brain

Video Shows Human Brain Cells in Dish Teaching Themselves to Play a Videogame

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

In a major neurological breakthrough, Stanford University scientists have successfully transplanted human brain cells into the brains of live rats.

Neuroscience and Brain

Scientists Transplant Human Brain Cells Into Living Rat Brains

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Pharmaceutical developers Biogen and Eisai want to fast-track a new Alzheimer's drug, lecanemab, for FDA approval — but it's been met with mixed opinions.

Neuroscience and Brain

New Alzheimer’s Drug Appears to Actually Work, to Some Degree

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

UC Davis is refusing to release a cache of grisly photos of the monkeys injured during experiments testing Elon Musk's Neuralink brain implant technology.

Battle Erupts Over Alleged Grisly Photos of Brain-Hacked Neuralink Monkeys

By Noor Al-Sibai

Multiple new studies appear to confirm that steroids — bodybuilding 'roids and the prescription drugs — are absolutely terrible for brain health.

Neuroscience and Brain

Steroid Use Linked to a Bunch of Very Bad Brain Problems

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A new study has found that, counter to popular belief, smoking weed doesn’t appear to actually make people lazy and apathetic after all.

Neuroscience and Brain

Pot Smokers Not More Likely to Be Apathetic or Lazy, Scientists Find

By Jon Christian

A recent study showed that feeding rats Cola-based soft drinks like Coke and Pepsi caused enough damage to their brains to cause... uh, some... stupidity.

Neuroscience and Brain

Scientists Fed Rats Sugary Soda for Two Months and They Got Demonstrably Stupider

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A team of university researchers says watching TV as a sedentary activity is more likely to cause dementia than other activities, like computer use.

Neuroscience and Brain

Scientists Link TV Watching to Developing Dementia

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Researchers may have discovered a new and effective way of stimulating and improving memory in older humans — and all they need to do is wear a headset.

Neuroscience and Brain

Scientists Say This Headset Significantly Improves Elders’ Memory

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Psychedelics like LSD may improve brain function, including boosting learning and memory. It also improves mental health and brain injury.

Neuroscience and Brain

Evidence Is Growing That LSD Improves Learning and Memory

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Another of Neuralink's cofounders has left the neurotechnology company amid an apparent slow exodus of the Elon Musk venture's executives.

Neuralink Cofounder Leaves as Brain Company Descends Into Chaos

By Noor Al-Sibai

Deepfakes are a growing threat, and detecting them is only getting harder. A new study says our subconscious is surprisingly effective at detecting them.

Scientists Jack Into Subjects’ Brains, Find That They Can Identify Deepfakes Subconsciously

By Frank Landymore

Brad Pitt is one of the most recognizable faces in acting. But recognizing faces is something that Pitt himself seriously struggles with.

Neuroscience and Brain

Brad Pitt Says He Has Prosopagnosia

By Frank Landymore

Doctors and lawyers work hard to evolve the legal definition of death in a way that helps patients, grieving families and others.

Neuroscience and Brain

Lawyers and Doctors Struggle to Figure Out Who’s Actually Dead

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Neuroscientists are positing that issues with the brain's own waste removal system may be the root cause of Alzheimer's disease.

Neuroscience and Brain

“Poisonous Flowers” in Brain May Cause Alzheimer’s, Scientists Say

By Noor Al-Sibai

If staring at this image makes you feel like you're being swallowed by a black hole, you're not alone. According to a new paper published in Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, approximately 86 percent of people experience the same effect.

Neuroscience and Brain

Argh! This Optical Illusion Makes You Feel Like You’re Falling Into a Black Hole

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

New research says EMFs emmitted by cell phones could be causing Alzheimer's because of excess calcium buildup in the brain.

Neuroscience and Brain

Alzheimer’s May Be Caused by Cell Phones, Scientists Say

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Space tourists headed to the International Space Station this month are bringing a special headset that can map changes in their brain activity during spaceflight.

Neuroscience and Brain

SpaceX Space Tourists Are Bringing a Brain-Reading Helmet to Space This Month

By Victor Tangermann

Some users who've taken "magic" mushrooms have experienced "wood-lover's paralysis," also called WLP, and lose control of their body through temporarily.

Neuroscience and Brain

People Who Took Psychedelic Mushrooms Say They Lost Control of Their Bodies

By Lonnie Lee Hood

For the first time ever, a fully paralyzed ALS patient has used a brain implant to communicate — and his pioneering requests were delightful.

Completely Paralyzed Patient Gets Brain Implant, Asks For Beer And Heavy Metal

By Noor Al-Sibai

Cognitive neuroscience professor Guillaume Thierry explores the experience of death and how long our brains can stil process information after we die.

Neuroscience and Brain

Neuroscientist Ponders Whether People Remain Conscious After Having Their Heads Chopped Off

By Victor Tangermann

It looks like at least one corporation may finally have reached their ultimate frontier: advertising to us in our sleep.

Neuroscience and Brain

Woman Says Coors Paid Her $1,000 to Successfully Inject Advertisements Into Her Dreams

By Noor Al-Sibai

US-based Kernel released a piece of wearable helmet tech called the Kernel Flow that uses near-infrared light to scan your brain with lasers.

Startup Builds Brain-Reading Helmet That Scans Your Brain in Infrared

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Turns out drinking can cause worse side effects than a hangover, even when done lightly.

Just One Alcoholic Drink Per Day Appears to Shrink Your Brain, Scientists Say

By Noor Al-Sibai

A team of scientists had the opportunity to study the brain waves of a dying person — and found an increase in activity associated with memory and dreams.

Neuroscience and Brain

Scientists Recorded the Brain Activity of a Person as They Died, and the Results Are Astonishing

By Tony Ho Tran

Neuralink has responded via blog post to say that yes, they have euthanized a few monkeys during the brain experiments.

Neuroscience and Brain

Neuralink Says 21 Percent of Its Monkeys Died Because of Brain Implant Issues

By Tony Ho Tran

An animal rights advocacy group accuses Neuralink and Elon Musk specifically of facilitating and funding the torture and mutilation of monkeys.

Neuroscience and Brain

Elon Musk’s Neuralink Accused of Abusing Brain-Hacked Monkeys

By Tony Ho Tran

Johnny Knoxville suffered a brain hemorrhage and cognitive decline for three months following a bull hit stunt filming "Jackass Forever."

Neuroscience and Brain

Johnny Knoxville Says He Suffered Brain Damage From Stunt in New “Jackass” Movie

By Lonnie Lee Hood

This Rhode Island man's story of his terrifying and rare brain mold condition reminds us that disease truly is everywhere.

Neuroscience and Brain

Man Alarmed When Doctors Discover Black Mold Growing on His Brain

By Noor Al-Sibai

Researchers and scientists recently expressed their horror at Musk's goal to connect human brains to computer chips just as Neuralink enters human trials.

Neuroscience and Brain

Scientists Express Concern at Elon Musk’s Neuralink Brain Chip

By Tony Ho Tran

Researchers at the University of North Carolina and the University of Missouri did a study of 830 voters to understand the conservative and liberal brain.

Neuroscience and Brain

Researchers Say There’s Something Psychologically Strange About Trump Voters

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Researchers have discovered that humans experience a “creative sweet spot” in the moments right before we fall asleep that can help solve tough problems.

Neuroscience and Brain

Human Brains Can Solve Hard Problems Moments Before Falling Asleep, Study Finds

By Tony Ho Tran

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has said that Neuralink, a neurotechnology company that he co-founded, plans to put brain chips in humans next year.

Neuroscience and Brain

Elon Musk Says He Wants to Put Brain Chips in Humans Next Year

By Tony Ho Tran

A new study published in Royal Society B reveals that grandmothers typically have an instinctual and neurological urge to care for their grandchildren.

Neuroscience and Brain

Scientists Scan Grandmas’ Brains, Confirm They REALLY Love Their Grandchildren

By Tony Ho Tran

J.M Stibel, a brain scientist, has discovered evidence that the size of human brains have greatly decreased in the past 50,000 years.

Neuroscience and Brain

Human Brains Are Shrinking, Scientist Warns

By Tony Ho Tran

Stanford scientists have developed a brain implant that allows a man with paralyzed hands to "type" up to 90 words per minute.

Neuroscience and Brain

New Brain Implant Turns Thoughts Into Text

By Tony Ho Tran

Researchers claim to have improved the specific functions of the human brain by using artificial intelligence paired with electrical brain stimulation.

Scientists Claim to Improve Human Brain Function With Implants and AI

By Victor Tangermann