Neuroscience

An amazing art installation in San Francisco allows you to make robotic flowers blossom with your mind.

Scientists implant a neuroprosthesis into blind rats' brains that allows them to navigate a maze using "psychic GPS" signals.

Remember in Frankenstein, when building a person from parts of different bodies was a really great idea? Neuroscientist Sergio...

Following the success of works like The Walking Dead, 28 Days Later, and World War Z, zombies have seen something of a renaissance in...

Futuristic artist Lisa Park created an installation in which she can control the vibrational movements of water pools using her...

Swiss scientists have built a device that allows humans to determine gene expression using only the power of thought. Their experiment...

The relationship between humans and technology took a strange turn today when two studies were released, one which detailed humans...

Can the brain be explained as a series of graphs? According to Danielle Bassett, who is the youngest MacArthur "Genius" Fellowship...

On Star Trek, Dr. Leonard McCoy used a "neural stimulator," a small instrument that was used to stimulate specific areas of the...

One of the most significant questions in philosophy is that of the potential incompatibility between predeterminism and free will. The...

The direction of human evolution is unclear; depending on whom you ask, there are trends towards a superintelligent new species of...

Two brains have directly said "hello" to each other for the first time. In an experiment conducted by Harvard researchers, "digital...

Meet Neil Harbisson, the world's first legally recognized cybernetic organism. The colorblind artist has an antenna implanted into his...

We know that when the Doctor undergoes his regeneration, every cell of his body changes, including his brain. He experiences gaps in...

In the Star Trek episode "Hard Time," Miles O'Brien is forced to experience twenty years worth of memories, specifically of a...

Can we modify human memories in order to treat mental illness? Researchers from Ruhr-University Bochum have published a paper which...

Could removing part of the brain afford a person emotional telepathy? A French woman who underwent brain surgery to treat epileptic...

We haven't been able to build a true, sentient artificial intelligence yet because we don't understand the human brain enough to build...

We may now be on our way to a real-life brain transplant, as researchers from the University of Luxembourg have neural stem cells...

The idea of "facing your fears" has long been a cornerstone of cognitive behavior therapy, but now psychotherapists in Italy want to...