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A Huge New Data Set Pushes the Limits of Neuroscience

There’s a video that’s shown in almost every introductory neuroscience course. It doesn’t look like much—a bar of...

Is the body key to understanding consciousness?

I n 2018, billionaire Silicon Valley entrepreneur Sam Altman paid a startup called Nectome $10,000 to preserve his brain...

Self-Taught AI May Have a Lot in Common With the Human Brain

For a decade now, many of the most impressive artificial intelligence systems have been taught using a huge inventory...

To Understand Brain Disorders, Consider the Astrocyte

Imagine the brain as the night sky—an expansive sea of tissue dotted with cells of all shapes and sizes....

Mourning rituals help people cope with grief, say scientists

The death of Queen Elizabeth II has plunged the royal household and much of the country into a period...

Why Pain Feels Worse at Night

It’s long been a mystery why one of the most basic human experiences—feeling physical pain—fluctuates in intensity throughout the...

Brain scran: pictures of food appear to trigger specific neurons, scientists find

Homer Simpson may not be the only one with a region of the brain dedicated to doughnuts: researchers have...

This Man Set the Record for Wearing a Brain-Computer Interface

Nathan Copeland considers himself a cyborg. The 36-year-old has lived with a brain-computer interface for more than seven...

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