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Scientists are warning that we may be overlooking serious brain disorders, triggered by the coronavirus that effect even those with mild symptoms.
Developments

Neurologists Say COVID Survivors Are Suffering Strokes and Brain Disorders

"The Accident," a bizarre and likely ancient brown dwarf, hints at an entirely new class of celestial objects hiding in plain sight within the Milky Way.
Science & Energy

Astronomers Discover Extremely Strange Deep Space Object

Facebook announced that is is abandoning plans to develop a brain-computer interface headset capable of turning brain signals into spoken words.
Meta

Facebook Abandons Plans for Mind-Reading Headset

Scientists found a way to significantly reduce the levels of "bad" cholesterol in a monkey's bloodstream for ten months with a single CRISPR injection
Studies

Scientists Gene-Hacked Monkeys to Fix Their Cholesterol

California-based startup Kernel is about to start shipping a $50,000 mind-reading helmet to dozens of customers across the US.
Neuroscience and Brain

Company Starts Shipping Its $50,000 Mind-Reading Helmet

Roughly one in three coronavirus patients are diagnosed with some sort of neurological or psychological condition within six months, according to a study.
Brain

A Third of COVID Patients Are Diagnosed With “Brain Disease”

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

An Australian soccer player with an injury that left him with quadriplegia is learning to walk again with the help of a robotic exoskeleton.
Health & Medicine

Paralyzed Soccer Player Walks Again Using Exoskeleton Suit

Scientists accidentally discovered a bizarre ecosystem of creatures on the seafloor under Antarctica, hundreds of miles from any apparent source of food.
Biology

Scientists Surprised by “Strange Creatures” Under a Mile of Antarctic Ice

Yet another study suggests there's a strong condition between COVID-19 and a variety of psychiatric and neurological conditions.
Health & Medicine

More Evidence Links COVID to Mental Illness, Neurological Disease

NASA launched a new citizen science project called Planet Patrol that asks for the public to help identify new exoplanets.
Science & Energy

New Website Lets You Help NASA Find Alien Worlds

According to a new study by researchers at Oxford, 20 percent of those previously infected with the coronavirus develop a mental illness within 90 days.
Health & Medicine

Oxford Research: 18% of COVID Patients Develop Mental Illness Within Months

New data reveals that hospitals in the United Kingdom treat more patients for heart attacks and strokes on days with worse air pollution.
Pollution

Study: Strokes, Heart Attacks Spike on Days With Poor Air Quality

Synchron CEO and founder Thomas Oxley explains how his neural implant startup beat Neuralink in the race to achieve FDA approval.
Neuroscience and Brain

How a Small Neurotech Startup Beat Elon Musk’s Neuralink to Human Studies

There's a growing body of evidence, the New York Times reports, that COVID adversely affects the memory and concentration of some patients.
Neuroscience and Brain

Doctors Say Many COVID Survivors Have Memory Loss, Brain Fog

An experimental neural implant seems to restore both muscular control over and sensation in people's limbs, even when a spinal cord injury is in the way.
Neuroscience and Brain

Tiny Neural Implant Could Give Spinal Injury Patients Control Over Their Own Limbs Again

With a bit of luck and great timing, astronomers managed to capture a fleeting gamma ray burst from ten billion years ago when its afterglow reached Earth.
Science & Energy

Two Neutron Stars Collided, Creating an Unbelievable Explosion

The "mole" attached to NASA's InSight Mars lander is officially "in" according to an update by the German Aerospace Center (DLR).
Mars

NASA’s Mars Mole is Officially “Dug In”

Japanese theme parks are no longer allowing parkgoers to scream and howl as they're riding roller coasters due to the risks of spreading the coronavirus.
Future Society

To Fight COVID, Japanese Theme Parks Forbid Screaming on Roller Coasters

Researchers showed that electrical stimulation through simple ear pieces improved adult participants' abilities to recognize foreign language tones.
Brain

Zapping the Brain Improved Language Learning Abilities by 13%