A Silicon Valley startup has announced what it calls the world’s first successful “multi-behavior brain upload,” after creating a complete digital replica of a fruit fly’s brain capable of controlling a virtual
The humble potato — long celebrated as a staple food and driver of historic empires — has just had its deepest secret uncovered: it is, quite literally, a child of the tomato.
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In 2005, a groundbreaking experiment changed how scientists understand and detect consciousness. A 23-year-old woman, left unresponsive after a car accident, was asked to imagine playing tennis while undergoing a brain scan.
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For anyone who has ever felt groggy and disoriented after hitting the snooze button, science may now have an answer for why. A groundbreaking study published today in Current Biology has revealed
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The University of Michigan is facing a federal investigation after two Chinese scientists with ties to the university were separately charged with attempting to smuggle biological materials into the United States. The
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Chinese researchers have developed a groundbreaking method to convert carbon dioxide into white sugar, offering a potential solution to global challenges such as climate change and food insecurity. The team from the
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Scientists have sequenced proteins from fossils over 20 million years old, dramatically extending the molecular fossil record—and potentially opening the door to studying dinosaurs at the molecular level. As reported by Nature,
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The laboratory of developmental biologist Michael Levin at Tufts University, with its dozen or so postgrads, is a hub of ideas, experiments, and discoveries. Most exciting is the focus on cognition as
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In a laboratory just outside Cambridge, a groundbreaking “biological computer” is taking shape. Known as the CL1 device, it contains around 200,000 human brain cells grown in the lab and integrated onto
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In a striking new study titled “Your Brain on ChatGPT”, researchers from MIT and affiliated institutions have uncovered profound cognitive consequences of relying on large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT for writing
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In a groundbreaking experiment reported by Nature, researchers have successfully grown beating heart tissue containing human cells inside pig embryos — a major milestone in the emerging field of human–animal chimaera research.
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