Engineers Printed Artificial Neurons. The Living Brain Answered Back.
Printed neurons made from electronic ink triggered real brain cells to fire — a breakthrough with direct implications for neuroprosthetics and brain-like computing.
Medicine & Health
A Virus That Kills Shrimp Is Showing Up in Human Eyes
A seafood pathogen has turned up in the eye tissue of patients with a serious, vision-threatening condition.
Lab-Grown Brain Tissue Can Play Pong. The Next Question Is Does It Feel.
Scientists are linking lab-grown brain tissue into structures complex enough that researchers are now seriously asking, in peer-reviewed journals, whether they could be conscious. There are no regulations yet.
A Brain That Should Be Dead Is Alive
The line between recoverable and not-recoverable for brain activity has moved.
Invisible Voices Make Accurate Diagnosis
A woman's hallucinations gave her a medical diagnosis, a hospital address, and a farewell. The tumor was real. Medicine still doesn't have a clean answer for the rest of it.
Space Broke Sperm's GPS
Sperm in microgravity can still swim. The problem is they've completely lost the plot. What that means for humanity's space ambitions is not a small question.