A new wireless device—lighter than a U.S. dime and shaped like a tiny chef's hat—can track the brain waves of animals as they move in natural habitats, opening doors to understanding complex behaviors that are impossible ...
Sep 10, 2026
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In recent years, psychedelic drugs have attracted growing interest as potential treatments for conditions including depression, anxiety and addiction. Although these drugs are often considered one group, researchers from ...
Sep 3, 2026
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Researchers from three institutions, including UC Santa Barbara, have demonstrated that artificial intelligence has the potential to make future visual prostheses, like a bionic eye, more precise, predictable and responsive ...
Aug 7, 2026
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In a study led by Jii Kwon and Chun Kee Chung of Seoul National University, researchers explored whether they could recreate melodies from the brain activity of people who imagined how songs continue after listening to a ...
Aug 3, 2026
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A type of brain activity linked to arousal and attention can track mind wandering. But research conflicts on whether this activity promotes or hinders mind wandering. Esther Thielking of Barnard College and colleagues explored ...
Jul 27, 2026
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In noisy environments, organisms differentiate sounds they want to detect from interfering noise to improve their perception of target sounds. This process is widely conserved across species, including birds, crocodiles, ...
Jul 13, 2026
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When watching a drama, we quickly learn who is friends with whom—and, just as importantly, who stands against whom. But how does the brain organize this web of alliances, rivalries and conflicts? Researchers from the University ...
Jul 6, 2026
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Humans and other mammals cycle through distinct sleep phases. One of them is easily recognized by the darting motion of the eyes behind closed lids, giving it its name: REM (rapid eye movement) sleep. This is the state in ...
May 6, 2026
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A medical, humanitarian, transhumanist and politically neutral project: This is how Neuralink has described itself since it was first founded in 2016. Over the past decade, however, the company created by Elon Musk to develop ...
Apr 9, 2026
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There's an optimal strategy for winning multiple rounds of rock, paper, scissors: be as random and unpredictable as possible. Don't pay attention to what happened in the last round.
Nov 6, 2025
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