For more than a century, brain imaging has been a story of trade-offs: sharp pictures but slow timing, or fast signals with ...

MIT researchers are using living cells to target diseased brain areas and deliver tiny electronic devices that can modulate ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." In 2024, “brain rot” was the Oxford word of the year. They defined it as “the supposed deterioration of a ...

Consciousness may emerge not from code, but from the way living brains physically compute.

A new computational model of the brain based closely on its biology and physiology has not only learned a simple visual ...

A new bioluminescent tool allows neurons to glow on their own, letting scientists track brain activity without harmful lasers or fading signals. The advance makes it possible to watch individual brain ...

A new ‘biomimetic’ model of brain circuits and function at multiple scales produced naturalistic dynamics and learning, and ...

Read this if you’re feeling stuck in a scroll and crash cycle. Excessive screen time can lead to “brain rot,” a mental fog that dulls focus, memory, and reward sensitivity. Reversing this decline ...

The robot moves only under direction from his brain, which is a collection of 50,000-100,000 rat neurons. The researchers separated the neurons from rat fetuses, cultured them, and then spread them on ...

Becoming a new mom is nothing short of exhausting. You’ve got a whole new life that’s solely dependent on you, and half of the energy you once had to provide. Things only get more difficult when your ...

If you’ve ever been pregnant or known a pregnant person, you’ve probably heard of pregnancy brain. “Pregnancy brain” refers to the cognitive changes some people experience while carrying a baby that ...