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A screenshot of the game display shows the quadcopter following a green path around the rings. The inset shows a hand avatar. The neural implant records from nearby neurons and algorithms determine the intended movements for the hand avatar. The finger positions are then used to control the virtual quadcopter. Image credit: Nature Medicine
Technology

Patient with paralysis uses mind to pilot virtual quadcopter

By Andrew Paul

brain glitch
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How does science explain déjà vu? It’s a brain glitch with a purpose.

By Julia Craven

a scan of a zebrafish with its eye highlighted in green and other parts of its anatomy stained red and blue
Biology

Mapping the shifting gaze of ‘fishlets’

By Laura Baisas

Astrocytes; neuroglial cells, 250X at 35mm.
Biology

‘Swiss army knife’ of the brain: How star-shaped cells reshape our understanding of memory

By Tom Hawking

brain scans of people watching clips from movies
Biology

MIT maps how the brain experiences movies

By Laura Baisas

Octopus in water
Animals

The ‘smart’ animal club keeps getting bigger

By Mack DeGeurin

Brain and brain waves in epilepsy, computer illustration. This EEG (electroencephalogram) illustration shows generalized epilepsy, affecting the whole brain cortex: all the EEG traces show chaotic brain waves. Epilepsy can take many forms, and have different effects. This could illustrate both benign epilepsy (inherited childhood form that normally improves with age), and myoclonic epilepsy (form that causes muscle contractions). An EEG measures electrical activity in the brain using electrodes attached to the scalp.
Technology

100 years of EEG: How this technology transformed neuroscience

By Erika Nyhus / The Conversation

Illustration of 3D printed brain tissue culture with 25nm scale
Biology

Scientists have 3D bioprinted functioning human brain tissue

By Andrew Paul

Smartphone showing Elon Musk X profile against Neuralink logo backdrop
Internet

Elon Musk alleges Neuralink completed its first human trial implant

By Andrew Paul

An ambulance speeding through traffic at nighttime
AI

Scientists are developing a handheld eye-scanner for detecting traumatic brain injury

By Andrew Paul

A clock-like brain indicates its role in sleep in an illustration.
Biology

Your brain’s ‘master switchboard’ is an underappreciated marvel

By Jocelyn Solis-Moreira

A pinkish human brain against a black background.
Mental Health

New human brain atlas is the most detailed one we’ve seen yet

By Jocelyn Solis-Moreira

Elon Musk sitting with finger tips touching in steeple shape
Technology

Neuralink is searching for its first human test subjects

By Andrew Paul

Dopamine is a lot more than just the ‘happy chemical’
Science

Dopamine is a lot more than just the ‘happy chemical’

By Kimberlee D'Ardenne / The Conversation