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A study involving hundreds of Russian cosmonaut brain scans reveal how the brain temporariy changes after months in orbit.

Neuroscience and Brain

According to Scans, Astronaut Brains “Reorganize” During Space Travel

By Dan Robitzski

On Friday, Elon Musk held a prototype product demo for Neuralink. But experts in the crowd remain unimpressed by his bold, unsubstantiated claims

Neuroscience and Brain

Neuralink’s Demo Didn’t Impress Experts

By Dan Robitzski

Elon Musk just cranked expectations for his brain interface startup even higher, tweeting plans to show off a "working Neuralink device" this Friday.

Elon Musk Says He’ll Show Off Functional Neuralink Device This Week

By Jon Christian

This week, Elon Musk plans to show off progress by Neuralink, his startup that's working on an interface between human brains and computers.

Elon Musk Is Planning to Show Off Neuralink Progress This Week

By Jon Christian

A team of scientists thinks it's cracked the code for developing electronics that can be embedded in someone's body without causing scarring along the way.

Prosthetics and Devices

Doctors Want to Put Chips In Your Body to Monitor Tumors

By Dan Robitzski

A team of scientists studying how sex chromosomes are linked to differences in the brain has to tread lightly, lest their work be misrepresented.

Neuroscience and Brain

Scientists Studying Sex Differences in the Brain Fear Their Work Will Be Misrepresented

By Dan Robitzski

Doctors managed to "delete" opioid addictions from the brains of lab mice by shining an implanted fiber optic light that prevented withdrawal.

Scientists Hack Mouse Brains to “Erase” Opioid Addiction

By Dan Robitzski

A new study on fruit flies found ways to quantitatively measure the level of consciousness that a fly was currently experiencing.

Neuroscience and Brain

Scientists Claim New Method Can Measure Consciousness

By Dan Robitzski

Neuroscientist Christof Koch is grapping with why so many people experience blissful near-death experiences, a rush that he compares to extreme activities.

Science & Energy

A Famed Neuroscientist Is Investigating Near-Death Experiences

By Dan Robitzski

Renowned neuroscientist Christof Koch argues that developing conscious artificial intelligence will require entirely new hardware.

Artificial Intelligence

Neuroscientist: Conventional Computers Will Never Be Conscious

By Dan Robitzski

A team of neuroscientists just created a complete, three-dimensional map of a mouse brain that they say could be a game changer for researchers.

Scientists Plot 100 Million Cells to Map Full 3D Mouse Brain

By Dan Robitzski

Researchers say they've built a system that can translate brain signals directly into text — allow users to think text directly into a computer.

Neuroscience and Brain

Scientists Debut System to Translate Thoughts Directly Into Text

By Jon Christian

According to new research, something happens during a musical performance: the brain activity of listeners synchronizes with that of the musician.

New Research: Listeners Synchronize Brain Activity With Musicians

By Jon Christian

A team of scientists built a neural net that connected artificial brain cells to living biological ones, which signalled back and forth over the internet.

Neuroscience and Brain

Artificial and Biological Neurons Just Talked Over the Internet

By Dan Robitzski

Here's why surgeons kept a talented musician awake and playing violin while they performed surgery on a portion of her brain.

Neuroscience and Brain

Watch a Violinist Play While Surgeons Operate on Her Brain

New research shows that marijuana use makes people more susceptible to believing a false memory, a troubling development for the legal system.

Neuroscience and Brain

New Research: Marijuana Can Lead to False Memory Formation

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists built a bizarre, tiny circuit that changes as electricity flows through it that they say could help them construct an artificial brain.

Scientists: Tiny Silver Wires Demonstrate “Brain-Like” Properties

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists recreated the bizarre activity of brain cells in tiny new chips, potentially leading to a new generation of artificial medical devices.

Neuroscience and Brain

Scientists Finally Build Artificial Brain Cells

By Dan Robitzski

Decades later, people who had half their brain removed as children have stronger neural connections and function than doctors expected.

Neuroscience and Brain

People With Half Their Brain Removed Are Doing Surprisingly Well

By Dan Robitzski

Research suggests that extended trips into space might cause cognitive decline in astronauts, as the brain changes without the influence of gravity.

Science & Energy

New Research: Astronauts Are Experiencing Cognitive Decline

By Dan Robitzski

As lab-grown mini brains become increasingly complex, some neuroscientists warn that scientists may be creating and killing off sentient life.

Science & Energy

Scientists Worried That Human Brains Grown in Lab May Be Sentient

By Dan Robitzski

As brain-computer interface and neural implant technology improves, the Royal Society argues we may soon be able to communicate telepathically.

Scientists: Brain Implants Could Essentially Make Us Telepathic

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists found that lab-grown mini-brains on the International Space Station are giving off brain waves, potentially posing a new ethical dilemma.

Scientists Grew Tiny Human Brains and Hooked Them up to Robots

By Dan Robitzski

The Human Brain Project, which ten years ago promised to model an entire human brain, failed to deliver. Scientists suspect it was doomed from the start.

Science & Energy

This Attempt to Simulate the Human Brain Fell Amazingly Flat

By Dan Robitzski

New lab-grown mini brains are the most advanced yet, spontaneously forming into neural circuits resembling the cerebral cortex and mirroring brain activity.

New Lab-Grown Mini Brains Are the Most Advanced Yet

By Dan Robitzski

A new study examined heavy internet users and found both structural and physical changes to their brains. Their memories and attention spans both suffered.

Science & Energy

Wait, What? New Research Says Internet Use Is Killing Your Memory

By Dan Robitzski

Experts: Brain-Stimulating Headsets Are Probably Snake Oil

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists now know that subjecting people to microgravity affects eyesight and perception. A new study will attempt to uncover the extent of the effects.

A Zero-G Jungle Gym Will Test How Microgravity Affects the Brain

By Dan Robitzski

Science writer Philip Ball donated some arm flesh to a lab that grew a miniature brain out of his cells. It made him question how we define humanity.

A Lab Grew a “Mini Brain” From This Guy’s Cells. Then Things Got Weird.

By Dan Robitzski

A brain-computer interface can connect three people's brains, letting them transmit thoughts to each other to collaborate in a game of Tetris.

This Machine Lets You Play “Tetris” With Your Brain

By Dan Robitzski

New research reveals that extended trips to space are causing astronauts' brains to fill with excess fluid and swell, potentially damaging their eyesight.

Bad News, NASA: Astronauts’ Brains Are Filling With Liquid

By Dan Robitzski

Brain scans of experienced Pokemon fans revealed a distinct region of the brain responsible for recognizing characters from the franchise.

Science & Energy

Scientists Identify “Pokémon Region” in Gamers’ Brains — Seriously

By Dan Robitzski

A Stanford scientist says that "hearables," devices that communicate with our brains through our ears like smart hearing aids, are coming soon.

Stanford Scientist Says In-Ear Gadgets Will Monitor Our Brains

By Dan Robitzski

Research suggests that two drugs may improve communication skills in people with autism. But the seemingly-conflicting results mean more research is needed.

Neuroscience and Brain

Controversial Research: Two Drugs May Reduce Autism Symptoms

By Dan Robitzski

A neural net hooked up to a monkey brain was tasked with triggering individual neurons. It did so with bizarre, surreal images.

Artificial Intelligence

A Neural Net Hooked Up to a Monkey Brain Spat Out Bizarre Images

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists may have uncovered a way to reverse the developmental disorder Angelman syndrome, but the treatment would involve gene-hacking fetal brains.

Injecting Fetal Brains With CRISPR Could Cure Genetic Conditions

By Dan Robitzski

This Video Game Detects Alzheimer’s Earlier Than Lab Tests

Neuroscience and Brain

This Video Game Detects Alzheimer’s Earlier Than Lab Tests

By Natalie Coleman

A new study took the first steps toward figuring out which part of the brain is responsible for giving people nightmares and negative emotions during sleep.

Neuroscience and Brain

Scientists Might Have Just Figured Out Where Nightmares Come From

By Dan Robitzski

A new type of quantum material can directly measure neural activity and translate it into electrical signals for a computer.

Scientists Say New Quantum Material Could “‘Download’ Your Brain”

By Dan Robitzski

Chinese scientists figured out that they could enhance a monkey's intelligence by introducing a single human gene linked to brain development.

Neuroscience and Brain

Chinese Scientists Gene-Hacked Super Smart Human-Monkey Hybrids

By Dan Robitzski

Several Chinese schools have started making students wear brain-scanning headbands that can detect when they start to lose focus or slack off.

In Chinese Schools, Brain-Reading Headbands Measure Student Focus

By Dan Robitzski

The Stentrode, the first neural implant that doesn't require open surgery, is poised to begin clinical trials to help paralyzed people communicate.

This Neural Implant Accesses Your Brain Through the Jugular Vein

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists found the a single dose of MDMA can help adult mice re-learn social behavior. They hope it can help people with PTSD.

MDMA Can “Reopen” a Part of the Brain That Closes After Puberty

By Dan Robitzski

New research suggests that human brains continue to grow new neurons after birth, tipping the scales of a decades-long scientific debate.

New Study Suggests Adult Brains Might Grow New Neurons

By Dan Robitzski

A new study found that some humans possess the ability to detect Earth's magnetism. We don't know why or how, but scientists think it's vestigial.

“Provocative” Research: Some People Can Sense Magnetic Fields

By Dan Robitzski

A self-assembling network of silver nanowires responds to electrical signals in a similar way to how the brain stores memories.

Artificial Intelligence

Chemists Grew A “Synthetic Brain” That Stores Memories in Silver

By Dan Robitzski

In order to better understand how smartphone use correlates with mental health in adolescents, scientists want to access Google and Apple's data stashes.

Google and Apple Can Help Learn How Phones Affect Kids’ Brains

By Dan Robitzski

New research suggests that the brain can learn while asleep after all, but only during a particular point in a particular kind of brain wave.

Science & Energy

It Turns Out You Can Learn Things While You’re Asleep

By Dan Robitzski

An international team of neuroscientists just found four distinction patterns of brain activity that they say are responsible for consciousness.

Scientists Claim to Find “Neurological Signature” of Consciousness

By Dan Robitzski

Researchers believe the brain reconstructs memories in the reverse order that it creates them, moving from the big picture onto the finer visual details.

The Human Brain Reconstructs Memories in Reverse Order

By Kristin Houser

A new clinical trial is recruiting patients to see if a drug that stops ALS-related neuron death can also help people with Alzheimer's Disease.

Neuroscience and Brain

New Drug Trial Could Halt Alzheimer’s Memory Loss

By Dan Robitzski

Cyberdyne's assistive exoskeleton, HAL, was approved for rehab treatments in early 2018. Now it's about to ship to five more hospitals.

Neuroscience and Brain

Watch a RoboCop-Like Exoskeleton Help Paralyzed People Walk Again

By Dan Robitzski

Clearing Old Cells from Mouse Brains Lowered Signs of Anxiety

Clearing Old Cells from Mouse Brains Lowered Signs of Anxiety

By Dan Robitzski

A neural implant nicknamed the "bionic face" can help treat facial paralysis by stimulating paralyzed muscles with electricity.

A “Bionic Face” Brain Implant Could Treat Facial Paralysis

By Dan Robitzski

A Wireless Neural Implant Might Jolt the Brain out of Seizures

A Wireless Neural Implant Might Jolt the Brain out of Seizures

By Dan Robitzski

New research describes how optogenetics, which involves activating nerve cells with pulses of light, could vastly improve paralysis treatment.

Neuroscience and Brain

Stimulating Muscles With Light Could Soon Treat Paralysis

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists figured out the ideal brain region to target with deep brain stimulation in order to alleviate depression symptoms.

Stimulating This Part of the Brain Alleviates Depression Symptoms

By Dan Robitzski

A new robotic limb picks up on the signals that an amputee's brain sends to their perceived phantom limbs. Without any practice, the new arm responds.

Prosthetics and Devices

A New Prosthetic Arm Takes the Place of a Phantom Limb

By Dan Robitzski

New Brain Implant Could Translate Paralyzed People’s Thoughts Into Speech

New Brain Implant Could Translate Paralyzed People’s Thoughts Into Speech

By Dan Robitzski

A brain floating against a space scene background.

Zero Gravity Causes Worrisome Changes In Astronauts’ Brains

By Dan Robitzski

The Royal Society pledged to publish studies that attempt to replicate any research that it's published. Other journals should do the same.

Science & Energy

An Academic Publisher Challenges Its Peers: Verify the Research You Publish

By Dan Robitzski

Clearing Faulty Cells Out Of The Brain May Stave Off Cognitive Decline

Clearing Faulty Cells Out Of The Brain May Stave Off Cognitive Decline

By Dan Robitzski

DARPA just unveiled a research project that lets people control multiple jet planes at once with just their thoughts. For now, it requires invasive surgery.

Military Pilots Can Control Three Jets at Once via a Neural Implant

By Dan Robitzski

A Researcher Is Offering a Prize to Anyone Who Can Prove a Germ Causes Alzheimer’s

Neuroscience and Brain

A Researcher Is Offering a Prize to Anyone Who Can Prove a Germ Causes Alzheimer’s

By Kristin Houser