University of Arizona brain researchers are using EEG machines to detect everyday invisible objects – the things your brain sees that it’s keeping from you:

“We were asking the question of whether the brain was processing the meaning of the objects that are on the outside of these silhouettes,” [doctoral candidate Jay] Sanguinetti said. “The specific question was, ‘Does [...]

An up-close look at chemoreceptors, chemical-sensing nerves, from the 1950s.

Not a flower, nor a machine, but somewhere between both. Found in the Biodiversity Heritage Library.

ScienceDaily keeps an eye out for creepy-crawlies with news that primate vision may have evolved *specifically* to identify snakes:

In a paper published Oct. 28 in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, [Lynne] Isbell; Hisao Nishijo and Quan Van Le at Toyama University, Japan; and Rafael Maior and Carlos Tomaz at the University of Brasilia, Brazil; and [...]

PhysOrg is sending out the call, as the Pentagon prepares to team up with brain-tech DIYers:

[...A]t the Maker Faire in New York, a new low-cost EEG recording front end was debuted at DARPA’s booth. Known as OpenBCI, the device can process eight channels of high quality EEG data, and interface it to popular platforms like Arduino. Arduinos [...]

BBC opens our eyes to a hidden process in the night, when sleep washes away toxic proteins in your brain:

Scientists, who imaged the brains of mice, showed that the glymphatic system became 10-times more active when the mice were asleep.

Cells in the brain, probably the glial cells which keep nerve cells alive, shrink during sleep. This increases the [...]

Why is this brain area important? I have no words.

Found on Wikimedia Commons.

Laboratory Equipment investigates the connection between musical training and quick brain responses:

Scientists have long known that moving to a steady beat requires synchronization between the parts of the brain responsible for hearing and movement. In the current study, Prof. Nina Kraus and Adam Tierney at Northwestern Univ. examined the relationship between the ability to keep a beat and [...]

BBC has one good reason to get a good night’s sleep tonight – because sleep boosts the number of healthy brain cells in yer head:

Sleep ramps up the production of cells that go on to make an insulating material known as myelin which protects our brain’s circuitry.

The findings, so far in mice, could lead to insights about sleep’s role [...]

Reuters plunges headlong into THE FUTURE with Austrian researchers who are growing miniature brains – “cerebral organoids” – from stem cells:

To create their brain tissue, Juergen Knoblich and Madeline Lancaster at Austria’s Institute of Molecular Biotechnology and fellow researchers at Britain’s Edinburgh University Human Genetics Unit began with human stem cells and grew them with a special combination of [...]