If someone manages to survive a more than one-meter-long metal rod passing through their skull, it’s no wonder they are still being talked about 150 years later. That was the case with Phineas Gage. In 1848, 25-year-old Gage suffered an accident where an explosion embedded a rod into his head. Astonishingly, his vital functions remained …
New Zealand alt-pop artist Benee has combined her favourite comfort food with expertise from neuroscientists to design a song, Bagels, that reduced anxiety more effectively than the track previously known as the most relaxing song in the world. Scientists from Auckland University of Technology played Bagels to 30 young people hooked up to EEG brain …
As 2022 came to an end, Elon Musk said that Neuralink was on track to begin human trials involving its brain-chip interface tech within the next few months. Today, the company announced that it has received approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to launch its first clinical trial involving human subjects. However, the …
Scientists have recently identified a unique form of cell messaging occurring in the human brain that’s not been seen before. Excitingly, the discovery hints that our brains might be even more powerful units of computation than we realized. Back in 2020, researchers from institutes in Germany and Greece reported a mechanism in the brain’s outer …
In general, fish are not known to be intelligent creatures with tremendous brain power. Many believe that Goldfish, in particular, have memory lapses of three seconds, but that is not true. The brain of another fish recently grabbed the spotlight for a different reason. A 319-million-year-old fish fossil at Manchester Museum has revealed that inside …
Researchers have completed the most advanced brain map to date, that of an insect, a landmark achievement in neuroscience that brings scientists closer to truly understanding the mechanism of thought. The international team led by Johns Hopkins University and the University of Cambridge produced an impressively detailed diagram that traces every neural connection in the …
