Consciousness may emerge not from code, but from the way living brains physically compute.

A new brain device from Northwestern University is asking a daring question: what if information could reach your brain ...

The brain’s chatter has always been partly out of reach, with electrical spikes easy to record but the chemical whispers ...

Scientists at the Carney Institute for Brain Science have discovered specific patterns of electrical signals in the brain that may help forecast whether a person will go on to develop Alzheimer’s ...

Researchers have engineered a next-generation glutamate sensor, iGluSnFR4, capable of detecting the faintest incoming ...

Pulsetto is a non-invasive vagus nerve stimulation device designed to support stress balance, sleep readiness, and nervous ...

In a new leap for neurobiology and bioelectronics, Northwestern University scientists have developed a wireless device that uses light to send information directly to the brain—bypassing the body's ...

For anyone looking to keep their mind sharp with age, science offers an unexpectedly low-tech suggestion: pick up a pen. A review of brain imaging studies found that handwriting activates a broader ...

We can't protect what we don't understand. From decoding wolf howls to making sense of millions of citizen-science sightings, we explore the tools helping researchers understand the wild in new ways.

1 Rehabilitation Medicine Department of the Second Affiliated Hospital, School of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen & Longgang District People's Hospital of Shenzhen, Shenzhen, ...

Before a car crash in 2008 left her paralysed from the neck down, Nancy Smith enjoyed playing the piano. Years later, Smith started making music again, thanks to an implant that recorded and analysed ...

An article in the peer-reviewed journal Science Advances reports that researchers have developed an innovative technique for generating captions from brain activity. Before you mentally review all the ...