Tag: neuroscience

Microglia are the silent guardians of the brain. They hunt down pathogens, clean up toxic protein clumps, and even shape ...

When brain organoids were introduced roughly a decade ago, they were a scientific curiosity. The pea-sized blobs of brain tissue ...

paper from Konrad Körding’s Lab , “Does Object Binding Naturally Emerge in Large Pretrained Vision Transformers?” gives insights into a ...

“Come watch me trip balls,” declared Bryan Johnson, the “Don’t Die” longevity entrepreneur, on X a couple of days before ...

Roam the wide-open halls and cavernous showrooms of the Colorado Convention Center during Psychedelic Science, the world’s largest psychedelics conference, ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine.When Todd Sacktor was about to turn 3, his 4-year-old sister ...

Summary: Opinion piece for the general TDS audience. I argue that AI is more transparent than humans in tangible ways. ...

So far the array has been tested in rats, with a version for dogs coming later, Lavella says. In a ...

The human gut microbiome plays a critical role in the body, communicating with the brain and maintaining the immune system ...

Alex Smith was 11 years old when he lost his right arm in 2003. A drunk driver operating a boat ...