Neuroscientists have detected five broad phases of brain structure in the average human life, split up by four pivotal turning points between birth and death when our brains reconfigure. Childhood ...

The term brain rot was voted Oxford University Press’ word of the year in 2024, an unusual honor for a phrase that started as online slang. OUP defines it as the supposed deterioration of a person’s ...

Inbrain Neuroelectronics signed a pact with Microsoft to use the tech giant’s Azure AI infrastructure to advance the Spanish company’s graphene-based brain-computer interface (BCI) technology. Inbrain ...

Plenty of people turn the captions on while watching TV, but what about captions for your thoughts? Researchers have built an interpretive interface that turns patterns of brain activity into text. To ...

Manifold will use its tissue-targeting shuttle technology to help Roche develop new therapeutics for diseases of the central nervous system. Roche is offering $55 million up front to work with ...

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is obsessed with codifying your biology. First it was scanning your eyeballs — and now it’s scanning your thoughts. The insight is based on a new hiring decision by Altman. He’s ...

Parts of the brain are "rewired" when people learn computer programming, according to new research. Scientists watched university students’ brains as they learned to code. The team used functional ...

Jennifer Hammel (left) and Monet Roberts conducted research in the Munson Lab at Fralin Biomedical Research Institute on the impacts of chemotherapy drugs on cognitive function. Both are first authors ...

CoMind announced that it secured $102.5 million in funding to support its non-invasive brain monitoring system. The London-based company had its latest funding round led by Plural. Existing investors ...

It started with a high school typing course. Wanda Woods enrolled because her father advised that typing proficiency would lead to jobs. Sure enough, the federal Environmental Protection Agency hired ...

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The method, known as Stereo-seq V2, may allow scientists to analyze preserved brain tissue at the cellular level, raising questions about whether genius can be decoded biologically. The technique, ...