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Scientists found traces of aluminum in the same place in donor brains as the toxic protein clumps that eventually cause Alzheimer's Disease.
Neuroscience and Brain

The Stuff Beer Cans Are Made From Is Linked to Alzheimer’s Disease

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

In a piece for The Washington Post, historian Émile Torres argued that it's possible an artificial superintelligence (ASI) could cause our extinction.
Artificial Intelligence

Historian Warns That AI Is Likely to Cause Human Extinction

IBM developed an algorithm that can predict who might develop Alzheimer's disease by spotting changes in their writing style.
Developments

IBM Algorithm Can Tell Who’s Going to Get Alzheimer’s by Reading Their Writing

Reserachers used a spinal cord implant in mice to help them walk again after being paralyzed long-term. They hope for human clinical trials.
RX and Medicine

Scientists Heal Paralyzed Mice With Spinal Cord Implants

An international team of researchers claim to have slowed the signs of aging in mice by resetting their cells to younger states.
Gene Editing

Scientists “Elated” by Treatment They Say Made Mice Genetically Younger

Scientists have discovered a molecular signal that can help them create a pill that replicates the effects of exercise without the actual exercise.
Developments

Researchers Say Newly-Discovered Particle Could Help Create “Exercise in a Pill”

Singer Courtney Love beefed with Elon Musk, tweeting he should pay his fair share of taxes and mentioning weird group emails.
Elon Musk

Courtney Love Is Threatening Elon Musk With Mysterious “Emails” for Some Reason

Scientists uncovered a series of epigenetic changes that seem to predict late-onset Alzheimer's disease, hinting at the possibility of future treatments.
RX and Medicine

Scientists Just Found Something That Happens Before Alzheimer’s Sets In

Residents in Jacksonville, Florida, heard a loud boom on Thursday night — and it wasn't fireworks gone rogue or a massive fireball coming to finish us off.
SpaceX

Residents Heard a Loud Boom. Turns Out It Was SpaceX Coming Back to Earth

A mysterious biotech startup with George Church on its board says it dodged regulatory oversight to give dementia patients an anti-aging gene therapy.
Developments

Mysterious Biotech Startup Gave Anti-Aging Gene Therapy to Dementia Patients

A new approach to brain-computer interface takes away implants and replaces them with millions of nanoparticles that can read neural activity.
Neuroscience and Brain

DARPA Is Funding Nanoparticles That Permeate Brain to Read Neural Signals

A gruesome study found that one kind of brain cell actually gets more active and starts to grow for hours after people die.
Neuroscience and Brain

After You Die, Some Cells in Your Brain Become More Active

The CEO of a Silicon Valley-based startup was dismissed for microdosing LSD right before a meeting in 2019.
Health & Medicine

Silicon Valley CEO Fired for Microdosing LSD at Work

Medical researchers gave Alzheimer's patients LSD to see how it affected their cognition. The treatment seemed safe, paving the way for future studies.
Chemistry

Doctors Are Giving Alzheimer’s Patients LSD

New optical tweezers can pick up objects as small as ten nanometers, potentially improving the way biologists investigate molecules.
Biology

Engineers Build Tweezers So Tiny They Can Pick Up Individual Molecules

Researchers claim they have made significant progress in developing a blood test that can detect Alzheimer's up to 20 years before any symptoms appear.
Health & Medicine

New Blood Test Could Detect Alzheimer’s 20 Years Before Symptoms

Entrepreneur and billionaire Elon Musk sat down with podcaster Joe Rogan to chat about the future of AI and its role in the symbiosis of man and machine.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk: Neuralink Will Do Human Brain Implant in “Less Than a Year”

As they travel in the body, viruses like herpes can soak up proteins that they use to produce the amyloid plaques linked to Alzheimer's symptoms.
Health & Medicine

New Research: Herpes May Make You Get Alzheimer’s Earlier

This Video Game Detects Alzheimer’s Earlier Than Lab Tests
Neuroscience and Brain

This Video Game Detects Alzheimer’s Earlier Than Lab Tests