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Three-dimensional views of 50,000 cells from a woman’s brain yield one of the most detailed maps yet.
Cambridge researchers grew ‘organoid’ that spontaneously connected to spinal cord
What if you could make money, or type something, just by thinking about it? It sounds like science fiction, but it might be close to reality.
A team of neuroscientists have produced a series of amazing, detailed images of fruit fly brains using a brand-new combination of imaging techniques.
For the first time, researchers have been able to study the moment brain death becomes irreversible in the human body, observing the phenomenon in several Do Not Resuscitate patients as they died in hospital.
Does this mean they can read your mind against your will?
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Researchers have discovered that memories form and get recalled along two distinct circuits in the brain.
A proto-consciousness field theory could replace the theory of dark matter, one physicist states.
Fading illusions play hide-and-seek with your perception
The surrealist paintings of mustached maestro Salvador Dalí were all about playing with our minds. One of his most famous pieces, “Slave Market with the Di
This could be where consciousness forms.
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If you’ve ever forgotten something and felt really awkward about it, or unsure of yourself, relax. Forgetfulness is a sign of highe
A study published in Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience has revealed that the human brain’s structures operate in up to 11 dimensions. Conducted by the Blue Brain Project, scientists discovered fascinating new details about the complexity of the human brain. “We found a world that we had never imagined,” explained neuroscientist Henry Markram, director of Blue Brain …
Recently, an 82-year-old woman who suffered from dementia, who couldn’t recognize her own son has miraculously got her memory back after changing her diet. When his mother’s condition became so severe that for her own safety she had to be kept in the hospital, Mark Hatzer almost came to terms with losing another parent. Sylvia […]
The Arc gene, which is critical for animals’ ability to learn from experiences, has an incredible origin story.
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Elon Musk and Stephen Hawking think AI and cybernetics may threaten humanity's survival, but avant garde model and musician Viktoria Modesta thinks not.
An old musician’s joke goes “there are three kinds of drummers in the world—those who can count and those who can’t.” But perhaps there is an even more global divide. Perhaps there are three kinds of people in the world—those who can drum and those who can’t.
“Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in eternal awareness or pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity.” ―Voltaire The first part of this article was written by: Rachel Nuwer, SmithsonianMag.com Matthieu Ricard, a 66-year old Tibetan monk and geneticist, produces brain gamma waves—linked to consciousness, attention, learning and memory—never before reported in neuroscience, leading researchers…
“This thing is a slot machine,” Tristan Harris says, gesturing to his iPhone during a '60 Minutes' segment that aired Sunday.
Explore a controversial, tricky theory about how our brains predict and shape reality, by leading researchers in an open online publication
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