It might soon be “game over” for the video game controller. Yale researchers have developed a new kind of brain-computer interface (BCI) that lets humans play video games directly with their brains.

UC Santa Cruz researchers trained human brain tissue clusters to master cart-pole balancing, boosting success rates from 4.5% to 46% Al is a long time tech writer with a penchant for all things nerdy.

In 2022, Australian biotech startup Cortical Labs made a big splash after announcing that it had taught “mini-brains” consisting of 800,000 to one million living human brain cells in a petri dish how ...

As recently as the 1990s, most doctors and researchers thought there might never be effective treatments for stroke. For centuries before that, victims of stroke were thought to have been "struck down ...

Clumps of mouse brain cells about the size of peppercorns can gain the knowhow to perform a virtual circus trick. With some coaching, these mouse brain organoids learned to keep a pole upright on a ...

Laura holds a Master's in Experimental Neuroscience and a Bachelor's in Biology from Imperial College London. Her areas of expertise include health, medicine, psychology, and neuroscience. Laura holds ...