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A pair of smart glasses developed by two Harvard dropouts will record everything you do to make you "super intelligent."

Artificial Intelligence

Harvard Startup Says Its Smart Glasses Will Do “Vibe Thinking” for You

By Frank Landymore

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

Neuroscience and Brain

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

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

Neuroscience and Brain

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

By Frank Landymore

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

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.

Neuroscience and Brain

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

By Frank Landymore

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

A new paper is shaping discourse around an ancient victim of Mount Vesuvius whose brain had melted into glass.

Science & Energy

Scientists Intrigued by Man Whose Brain Turned Into Glass

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

Scientists tracked tiny pieces of microplastics as they moved through the brain blood vessels of mice. Some of them became stuck.

Microplastics Getting Stuck in Brain Vessels Like Clots, Scientists Find, Causing “Neurological Abnormalities” in Mice

By Victor Tangermann

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

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

By Victor Tangermann

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

Neuroscience and Brain

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

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

By Victor Tangermann

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

Neuroscience and Brain

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

By Sharon Adarlo

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

Neuroscience and Brain

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.

Neuroscience and Brain

Analysis of Trump’s Speech Finds Signs of Cognitive Decline

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.

Neuroscience and Brain

Scientists Reverse Alzheimer’s Synapse Damage in Mice

By Sharon Adarlo