Imagine that medical science advances to the point where doctors can replace a human brain with an artificial one. The replacement is an extraordinarily sophisticated computer that performs every ...

University of Colorado Anschutz researchers found that HSV-1, the virus that causes cold sores, can reprogram the brain’s immune cells, potentially linking viral infection to chronic inflammation and ...

That old phone gathering dust in a drawer could have a second life far more entertaining than being a paperweight. UCLA researchers have created PhoneBot, a little humanoid that puts your smartphone ...

Ten weeks ago, we opened up a preview of an LSP-powered extension that brings IntelliJ IDEA’s smartness for Java and Kotlin into VS Code and Cursor. As mentioned in that blog post, this is part of a ...

Creative drawing ability is associated with the structure of the wiring that links sensory, movement and thinking systems across the brain, according to a study published in Cerebral Cortex. The ...

Breaking down this year’s Nobel Prize–winning science, from switching brain cells on and off with light to catching cosmic neutrinos in Antarctic ice to building mirror-image molecules. Plus, a ...

For about a decade, the mainstream understanding has been that psychedelics cause chaos in the brain. Brain networks—the stable patterns of communication that handle vision, attention, or our sense of ...

The relatively short lifespans of non-human great apes might explain why their brain mass is maintained in later life Branka Hrvoj-Mihic at George Washington University in Washington DC and her ...

When the clock is ticking, the stakes are sky-high, and every choice carries immense weight, how do you perform? Whether it’s a surgeon in the operating room, a firefighter facing a raging inferno, or ...

Do women's brains really change when they become mothers? Yes, says neuroscientist Susana Carmona. But the changes actually start before they give birth. Carmona has been studying women's brains for ...