Neuroscience

The human brain is frustratingly slow compared to digital alternatives. We store memories in confusing and bizarre ways, and while...

On Monday, at the World Government Summit in Dubai, Elon Musk expanded on a very radical idea — humans must merge with machines to...

Even for fans of Futurama, what Sergio Canavero recently announced is pretty extreme: the Italian neuroscientist is gearing up for...

Scientists have discovered a way to reconstruct the images in a person's mind. In a new study, researchers concluded that it's...

Patients with epilepsy are known to experience religious conversion experiences, or episodes in which they claim to "see" or "hear"...

Brain plasticity is the ability of the organ to adapt and change when conditions for other portions of the body changes — such as...

There’s no arguing that the U.S. doesn’t have a problem with the abuse of opioids and painkillers. However, a new device created...

Have scientists just created the real-life equivalent of Luke Skywalker's bionic hand (or at least his fingertip)? A new study,...

New research by the University of California, Davis Center for Neuroscience suggests that the human brain is prepared for the concept...

Rosemary Johnson was a violinist in the Welsh National Opera Orchestra, and was hailed as a future world-class musician until she...

Most would consider a security system that included a fingerprint scanner for identity verification pretty advanced, and one that...

The X-Files black oil virus greatly resembles a real-life amoeba.

It's long been theorized that consuming certain types of fiction makes a person more empathetic; for example, a recent study showed...

In what sounds like a mixture of The Matrix and Limitless, DARPA has created a device that can be implanted directly into the brain,...

The program can predict the onset of psychosis with 100% accuracy.

The “brain in a jar” scenario, in which a mad scientist disembodies a person's brain and connects it to a simulated reality, is...

"I'm busy right now, Siri."

Scientists are creating devices that can shock your brain into working harder.

He also suggests putting violent criminals in the Matrix for the rest of their lives.

A team of researchers at Harvard just figured out how to "cyborgize" mice brains.