neuroscience

A new brain-computer interface system can determine whether you'll be attracted to specific faces, even before you look at them.

Poker Face

It even knows you'll be attracted to someone before you see them.

Brain-Reading Machine Detects Who You Have a Crush On

Scientists found a way to directly image a living mouse brain with a fluorescent microscope without having to conduct invasive surgery.

Peekaboo!

Developments

Scientists mapped out an entire mouse brain — without damaging it at all.

New Microscope Technique Can Peer Inside a Brain Without Surgery

Triggering a completely wireless neural implant made rats become social with one another, but only until the signal turned off.

Forced Friendship

Sign me up!

A Brain Implant Made Mice Immediately Become Friends

Exposure to air pollution seems to cause short-term cognitive defecits in older white men, according to an alarming new study.

Brain Fog

Neuroscience/Brain Science

We knew it!

Something Is Frizzling Up the Brains of Old White Guys

Female Indian jumping ants vying for a seat on a vacant throne actually shrink their own brains to become queenlike mating "gamergate" ants.

That's a Mood

The ants undergo a bizarre transformation while they fight over their colony's throne.

This Type of Ant Can Shrink and Regrow Its Brain

As Neuralink continues to develop its neural implant technology, experts have concerns about what that would mean for personal privacy.

Neural Mining

"I worry about the widespread use of brain chips in the future."

Expert: Neuralink Could Sell Your Private Thoughts to the “Highest Bidder”

Scientists found traces of aluminum in the same place in donor brains as the toxic protein clumps that eventually cause Alzheimer's Disease.

Medical Metal

Studies

The metal may play a role in forming the neuron-killing plaques associated with Alzheimer's.

The Stuff Beer Cans Are Made From Is Linked to Alzheimer’s Disease

Elon Musk's brain-computer interface company Neuralink recently showcased a macaque playing "Pong" with its mind. Researchers in the field are unimpressed.

Style, Substance

"The performance is very rudimentary."

Famed Neurobiologist Slams Neuralink’s Monkey Demo

Experts say that ethical concerns over growing brain-like neural organoids or implanting human brain cells into animals are unfounded, at least for now.

Green Light

The NIH is imposing clear ethical guidelines over controversial neuroscience studies.

Scientists: Don’t Worry, Adding Human Brain Cells to Animal Brains Is Fine

A gruesome study found that one kind of brain cell actually gets more active and starts to grow for hours after people die.

Zombie Cells

So-called zombie genes make brain cells grow bigger and bigger for several hours.

After You Die, Some Cells in Your Brain Become More Active

Scientists discovered that they could use precise ultrasound to read neural activity and even predict behavior before it happens.

Mind Readers

It's a whole new approach to brain-computer interfaces.

Caltech Scientists Say They Can Read Human Brain With Ultrasound

A new approach to brain-computer interface takes away implants and replaces them with millions of nanoparticles that can read neural activity.