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They've produced the first ever complete connectome of an insect brain showing every single neoron and synapse, a landmark in neuroscience.

Atlas of the Mind

Neuroscience/Brain Science

It's an incredible achievement.

Scientists Just Created the First Complete Map of an Insect Brain

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

Brain Computer

"While silicon-based computers are certainly better with numbers, brains are better at learning."

Scientists Working to Build Biocomputers Out of Lab-Grown "Minibrains"

A study conducted by scientists from Trinity College Dublin could suggest that quantum processes are involved in the functions of our brains.

Small Suggestion

"As a result, we can deduce that those brain functions must be quantum."

Scientists Suggest Our Brains Work Like Quantum Computers

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.

Very Cool

Cancer

It literally blasts the tumors with heated up gold particles.

Doctors Test Brain Implant That Destroys Tumors

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.

DishBrain

This is incredible.

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

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

Spooky Season

They appear to have grown new cognitive powers.

Scientists Transplant Human Brain Cells Into Living Rat Brains

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.

It's Electric

"It's sort of connecting to the so-called language of the brain..."

Scientists Say This Headset Significantly Improves Elders' Memory

Miraculously, surgeons just successfully completed one of the most complicated conjoined twin separations ever recorded — with the help of virtual reality.

Detachment Theory

Devices

It was "just really man-on-Mars stuff."

Surgeons Use VR Headsets to Separate Conjoined Twins

"Game of Thrones" star Emilia Clarke has spoken out about surviving two separate brain aneurysms while filming the epic HBO series in 2011 and 2013.

Brain of Thrones

Developments

"It was the most excruciating pain."

Emilia Clarke Says She Had "Quite a Bit" of Her Brain Removed

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.

Black Hole Illusion

It's just a trick — or is it?

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

Kids who played video games saw a positive impact on their intelligence, European scientists say in new study published in the Nature journal.

Game On

Studies

V poggers.

Good News, Gamers! That Screen Time Could Make You a Little Smarter, Scientists Say

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.