A 60-year-old man in Spain went to the doctor complaining of a headache that he couldn’t shake. It had started two weeks prior and was only getting worse. He also said he had noticed subtle changes in ...

Neuroscientist Miia Kivipelto’s life’s work has been about preventing dementia. Now, at 52, she has begun thinking more about her own vulnerability. “Midlife is the time,” said Kivipelto, a ...

It might soon be "game over" for the video game controller. Yale researchers have developed a new kind of brain-computer interface (BCI) that lets humans play video games directly with their brains.

The country wants to become a global leader in brain implants. Strong government support is expected to help accelerate that process. One day last October, sitting in the courtyard of his house in ...

Here’s one of the more unsettling schemes to recently emerge from Silicon Valley: human clones grown without a conscious brain. At least one biotech start-up reportedly has quixotic ambitions of ...

Ozempic was supposed to be a gut story. Then Allison Shapiro looked at the brain scans. An assistant professor at the University of Colorado Anschutz, she was part of a team studying 13 teens and ...

What is a brain? The question might seem obvious, but it is not trivial. Neuroscience has progressed in the past century, with the development of sophisticated techniques to measure and manipulate ...

In 1956, British psychiatrist Humphry Osmond coined the word “psychedelic” from Greek roots meaning “mind-manifesting” or “soul-revealing.” The term proved fitting. Users report that seconds stretch ...

Days after several high-profile Ethereum Foundation departures, the EF still has not publicly explained the exits, fueling growing frustration and speculation across the Ethereum community about ...

It is a dogma in neuroscience that certain brain cells respond in the same way to the same thing. Specific neurons always fire, for example, when we see particular shapes and colours; other neurons ...

Gear-obsessed editors choose every product we review. We may earn commission if you buy from a link. Why Trust Us? Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: For a long time, people have ...