Fortschritt… Neural Interfacing Will Create a ‚Cosmic Oneness‘ With Your Phone 10 Jun 20179 Jun 2017 "The dystopian version is something like the Borg." By Malone Mullin | MOTHERBOARD Visions of the so-called Singularity—the merging of man and machine—are solidifying day by day. In April, Facebook…
Evolution… Fish Can Recognise Human Faces 8 Jun 20167 Jun 2016 It’s enough to make this writer seriously consider vegetarianism: A new study has found that fish can recognise human faces. By Victoria Turk | MOTHERBOARD The paper, published in…
Geschichte… New Imaging Study Shows How Schizophrenic Brains Regenerate 29 Mai 201628 Mai 2016 To say that cures are rarely discussed within the context of mental illness would be an understatement. The reality is much closer to never and this becomes even more true…
Evolution… Neuroscientists Hack the Brain’s Circuitry for Winning and Losing 1 Apr 201631 Mär 2016 We may be programmed in such ways as to predispose us toward "winning" or "losing," according to research published this week in Science by neuroscientists at the RIKEN Brain Science…
Bildung… Scientists Studied How Our Brains Would React to Teleportation 26 Feb 201625 Feb 2016 Teleportation turns out to be an easy thing to simulate, neurologically speaking. The rhythmic brain patterns that appear in real-world spatial navigation reappear as subjects navigate virtualized environments on a…
Ökonomie… Lab Grown Mini-Brains Could End Animal Testing (on Brains) 15 Feb 201614 Feb 2016 Each year, millions of animals around the world are used for laboratory testing. Animal advocacy groups such as PETA and the Human Society have been very vocal about the need…
Medien… How Do You Make a Memory? This Study Puts Us Closer to the Answer 2 Jul 20151 Jul 2015 Human memory—the encoding of information into our very brains—is a process at once fascinating and still pretty mysterious. In a study published Wednesday in study published Wednesday in Neuron, researchers…
Bildung… In the Style of Demons: Sleep Paralysis Is the Worst Trip Ever 22 Jun 201521 Jun 2015 Suffocation is a unique, distinctly non-intellectual pathway to fear.Just the merest hint of it causes an automatic, guaranteed physiological reaction: CO2 levels in the blood rise and pH levels in…
Ökonomie… The Paralysed Man Who Can Control a Robotic Arm With His Thoughts 13 Jun 201512 Jun 2015 When Erik Sorto was 21, a gunshot wound left him paralysed from the neck down. Over ten years later, he was preparing smoothies for a room full of kids with…
Bildung… The Race to Map the Brain So We Can Upload It Into a Computer 12 Jun 201511 Jun 2015 It’s 2015, and we can’t even map a mouse brain, let alone a human one. “Nobody really knows how the brain is wired,” neuroscientist Shawn Mikula, who recently discovered a…
Ökonomie… Apocalypse Neuro: Why Our Brains Can’t Process the Gravest Threats to Humanity 11 Jun 201510 Jun 2015 Our brains are incredible little mushboxes; they are unfathomably complex, powerful organs that grant us motor skills, logic, abstract thought. Brains have bequeathed unto we humans just about every cognitive…
Christentum… Humanity’s long Search for the Soul in the Brain 9 Jun 20158 Jun 2015 The history of Western neuroscience may seem a dry topic to an outsider, a litany of impenetrable Latinisms and anatomical diagrams. It is, in fact, a series of fascinating battles…
Ökonomie… Neuromorphic Circuits Don’t Just Simulate the Brain, They Outrun It 14 Mai 201513 Mai 2015 Actually simulating a human brain is a long, long way off—much longer than many neuro-enthusiasts would like us to think. But that doesn't mean powerful, practical neuromorphic computing is quite…
Bildung… Ancient Fossil Brain Gives Clues on How Arthropods of Today Got Heads 8 Mai 20157 Mai 2015 When Javier Ortega-Hernández realised he was looking at a well-preserved fossilised brain over 500 million year old at the Smithsonian Institute, he knew he’d made a remarkable discovery. By Emiko…
Fortschritt… Scientists Found a Way to Email Brain Waves 22 Aug 201421 Aug 2014 Researchers have successfully communicated words from one brain to another over the internet. By Jordan Pearson—MOTHERBOARD Brain wave-sensing technology, which utilizes electroencephalography-powered headsets, has already been demonstrated to do all kinds of…