When you’re short on sleep and your focus suddenly drifts, your brain may be briefly slipping into cleanup mode. Scientists discovered that these attention lapses coincide with waves of fluid washing ...

You cannot get me to say Candyman or Bloody Mary in a mirror five times. I can’t do it. Won’t do it. No thank you. Silly superstitious fear as it is, it’s one that countless others experience…and that ...

You probably don’t need that detox drink, tonic or supplement. Experts regularly emphasize that there’s no need to flush yourself “clean” because the body has its own detoxification systems, and one ...

Can Meditation Make Your Brain Younger? Way beyond stress reduction, meditation has the quiet power to defy aging of the brain. By Balachundhar Subramaniam, M.D. Aging is unavoidable. None of us can ...

Not to ruin your high, but habitually smoking marijuana has been known to take a toll on the body. It can irritate the lungs, damage blood vessels and accelerate heart rate. Not to mention the ...

No, this isn’t science fiction. Real-life researchers taught a dish of roughly 200,000 living human brain cells to play the classic 1990s computer game “Doom.” Experts at Cortical Labs, an Australian ...

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 ...

Human neurons grown on a chip just learned to play Doom, and the way they’re programmed could change computing. Donald Trump reacts to Venezuela beating US in World Baseball Classic McDonald’s newest ...

What just happened? Following news that its human brain cell-powered computer can run Doom, Australian biotech startup Cortical Labs has announced it is working on two small data centers running on ...

A computer platform that runs on human neurons (and recently showed off said neurons’ ability to play DOOM) now wants in on the data center boom. Australia-based Cortical Labs announced today that it ...