One of the fun facts about animals that look innocent, like the platypus, is their strange defense mechanisms. The heels of ...

The Allen Institute in Seattle says scientists have now learned enough about how the brain works to start fixing it when it.

New research by Georgetown scientists shows how the brain rewires itself to automate learned tasks. The findings challenge a ...

Most people encounter geese as the loud, waddling birds blocking traffic on a suburban road or terrorizing park visitors who got too close to a nest. They’re easy to dismiss. Yet scientists who spend ...

We’ve all experienced that sudden, sharp headache after gulping down an ice cream cone or slurping a slushy too quickly. That painful sensation, commonly known as “brain freeze” or “ice cream headache ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the big picture of artificial intelligence. The brain is unimaginably complex. Google and Harvard recently announced ...

The potential to create personalised digital “twins” of your brain and body is a hot topic in neuroscience and medicine today. These computer models are designed to simulate how parts of your brain ...

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A recent study published in Physical Review Letters reveals that many widely used signatures of criticality in brain data may be statistical artifacts. They propose a more robust framework that, when ...

Hundreds of local residents came to campus to explore brain puzzles, art projects and hands-on science experiments, all designed to make neuroscience fun and accessible for every age. PROVIDENCE, R.I.

A dish of living human neurons has been taught to play Doom. No, it isn’t conscious or watching the screen the way players do. But it is learning to respond to signals in a way that produces ...

Australian biotech startup Cortical Labs claims have successfully programmed living human neurons to play the cult-classic 1993 video game Doom. The team created a microelectrode array by growing ...