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A majority neuroscientists think memories live on in the brains of the dead, and a large number believe these memories could be extracted.

Startling Percentage of Neuroscientists Say We Could Extract Memories From Dead Brains

By Sharon Adarlo

The neurons of our brains may exist at a critical point between two states of matter that can't be distinguished,

Neuroscience and Brain

Human Neurons Are Stuck Between Shifting Phases of Matter, Scientists Say

By Frank Landymore

A startup in Switzerland has built a unique computer processor made from 16 tiny brains made from human tissue, basically a living computer.

Neuroscience and Brain

Scientists Connect 16 Mini Brains Made of Human Tissue to Create a “Living Computer”

By Sharon Adarlo

Researchers have developed a material that can remotely stimulate neural tissue and allow nerve signals to flow again.

Scientists Say New Material Can Reconnect Severed Nerves

By Sharon Adarlo

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.

Neuroscience and Brain

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

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

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

Neuroscience and Brain

Scientists Transplant Human Brain Cells Into Living Rat Brains

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A team of scientists successfully took control over a Venus Flytrap, a cultivated carnivorous plant, by implanting a tiny microchip in it.

Scientists Control Venus Flytrap With Implanted Computer Brain

By Victor Tangermann

The observable universe and the neuronal networks of the human brain are astonishingly alike according to a new paper by an astrophysicist and neurosurgeon.

Science & Energy

Scientists: The Human Brain Has Odd Similarities to the Entire Universe

By Victor Tangermann

Australian startup Cortical Labs is building tiny artificial intelligence-powered computer chips that use biological neurons extracted from mice.

This Startup’s Computer Chips Are Powered by Human Neurons

By Victor Tangermann

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Science & Energy

Scientists Identified “Anxiety Cells” in the Brain by Switching Them On and Off

By Chelsea Gohd

In First-Ever Demonstration, Researchers Show Ultrafast Light Pulses Can Trigger Neurons to Fire

In First-Ever Demonstration, Researchers Show Ultrafast Light Pulses Can Trigger Neurons to Fire

By Chelsea Gohd

Scientists Can Now Turn off Feelings of Thirst in Mice

Science & Energy

Scientists Can Now Turn off Feelings of Thirst in Mice

By Kristin Houser

Neurons Use a Type Of “Adrenaline Rush” to Communicate With the Immune System

Health & Medicine

Neurons Use a Type Of “Adrenaline Rush” to Communicate With the Immune System

Biologists Identify New Source for Brain’s Development

Biologists Identify New Source for Brain’s Development

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Science & Energy

Making A Better Brain: Scientists Just Discovered a New Kind of Brain Cell

By Patrick Caughill

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Revolutionary Discovery About the Human Brain Could Lead to Second-Gen AI