Cognition

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

Neuroscience/Brain Science

It's just a trick — or is it?

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

A placebo-controlled study identified which impacts of microdosing LSD, from improved focus to anxiety, emerge at which dosages.

Brain Booster

Rx/Medicines

Here are the doses they tried.

Study: Microdosing LSD Improves Mood and Cognition

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Researchers have figured out how a slime mold without a brain is still seemingly able to learn and transmit knowledge to other molds.

Smart Mold

They also figured out how it shares what it knows with other slimes.

Researchers Discover How a Brainless Slime Can Remember Things

Researchers taught honeybees math skills, revealing that the animals' tiny brains are more capable than we previously thought.

One, Two, Bee...

This discovery teaches us something about new bees — and maybe also AI.

Honeybees Are Smart Enough to Learn Basic Math

The Pentagon's emerging technologies unit put out a call last week for proposals that use insect brains to control robots.

The Pentagon thinks bugs could hold the secrets to conscious experience.

DARPA Wants to Build Conscious Robots Using Insect Brains

We didn't think it was possible.

Neuroscientists Have Followed a Thought as it Moves Through the Brain

If we can't beat 'em, join them...and then beat 'em.

Elon Musk: To Survive The Age of Artificial Intelligence, Humanity Must "Achieve Symbiosis With Machines"

Scientists Find New Way Information is Communicated Through the Brain