When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A new brain-machine interface (BMI) uses light to "speak" to the brain, mouse experiments show.

A paper published today in the journal Cell Reports Medicine offers new hope for an Alzheimer’s drug that doesn’t just slow cognitive decline but may reverse it. The study, by researchers at the ...

The technology is still in its infancy. But its trajectory suggests that ethical conversations may become pressing far sooner than expected. These “biocomputers” are still in their early days. They ...

Five and a half months after doctors in Georgia delivered a premature baby to a brain-dead mother, the child’s grandmother is optimistic about his chances of surviving. April Newkirk shared on ...

🧃 Per my last brain cell: OK, you know those emails that start with “Just circling back” or “Please advise”? Yeah, turns out everyone hates them, and now AI’s writing that way, too. We basically ...

Like the seeds of a forest, a few cells in embryos eventually sprout into an ecosystem of brain cells. Neurons get the most recognition for their computing power. But a host of other cells provides ...

Pulsing ultrasound waves through the brain could improve survival after a type of stroke by helping to clear out inflammatory dead blood cells, according to a study in mice. The approach, which ...

Researchers have identified special immune cells in the brain that help slow Alzheimer’s. These microglia work to reduce inflammation and block the spread of harmful proteins. They appear to protect ...

FILE - This photo provided by the South Carolina Department of Corrections shows the state's death chamber in Columbia, S.C., including the electric chair, right, and a firing squad chair, left.

Robert Pattinson is starring in various tentpoles, which include Dune: Part Three, and filming in the desert proved to be a unique experience for the actor. In a new interview, the Batman actor ...

Kampmann’s work, supported by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), maps cellular “decision points” that determine whether brain cells survive or die — laying the groundwork for treatments that ...