In the year 2010, neuroscientists used advanced brain imaging to confirm what the Stoics had intuited 2,300 years ago: Our emotions move faster than our reason. Within just 40 milliseconds of seeing ...

How do the circuits of the human brain work—and what happens when they are disrupted? To investigate these questions, researchers at the Eye Clinic of the University Hospital Bonn (UKB) and the ...

Stanford scientists have solved a long-standing challenge in growing brain organoids by using a simple food additive to keep them from sticking together. The breakthrough enables the production of ...

An artificial vision sensor inspired by the human pupil adapts automatically to light, maintaining clear perception from darkness to glare and sharply improving recognition accuracy in machine ...

IGN's Nick Limon sat down with NVIDIA GeForce evangelist, Jacob Freeman, and Global Art Director at CD Project Red, Jakub Knapik, to talk about the state of PC gaming along with NVIDIA technologies ...

WARNING. Stay inside. Lock your doors. Close the blinds. Only let humans in. Eliminate all Visitors. Watch the No, I'm Not a Human launch trailer for this anxiety horror about paranoia in the End of ...

For much of the 20th century it was thought that the adult brain was incapable of regeneration. This view has since shifted dramatically and neurogenesis – the birth of new neurons – is now a widely ...

Human-accelerated regions (HARs) are sections of the human genome that have accumulated an unusually high level of mutations as humans split away from chimpanzees. Given their rapid evolution, some ...

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