A new wearable device connects AI directly to the brain, enabling a silent dialogue. This could redefine our identity, ...

A team at University of Massachusetts Amherst developed artificial neurons that fire in the same voltage range as living ...

Even though there are more nuances to the data on dementia’s prevalence, this doesn’t minimize the desire that people have to ...

Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. You probably think you’re listening to my voice right now. But what if I told you that you’re actually experiencing a ...

Three former Google X scientists aim to give you a second brain virtually — not in the sci-fi or chip-in-your-head sense, but through an AI-powered app that gains context by listening to everything ...

As two more oil refineries prepare to close in California, workers who are laid off face limited job opportunities.

Janina Seubert receives funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement n° 947886) and from the Swedish ...

For the first time, scientists have discovered that smell and taste are inseparable much earlier in the brain than we thought. New research shows that odors can actually be coded as tastes in the ...

Recently, a post on the popular Ask Reddit page from a now-deleted user caught my eye. In it, they asked, "What’s a fact that sounds fake, but is actually true?" People listed so many fun facts, I ...

Microplastics gush out of our taps and flake off cookware. They find their way into the yolks of eggs, and into meat and ...

Research points to the potential health repercussions of microplastics. Now, a study seeks to explain how these nanoparticles enter the human brain (of which up to a “spoonful” may be present!) and ...