They’re growing miniature human brains from stem cells.
Reuters plunges headlong into THE FUTURE with Austrian researchers who are growing miniature brains – “cerebral organoids” – from stem cells: To create their brain […]
neurology
Mosquitos *taste* heat.
Science Daily has more on the strange, previously unknown sensory organ in insects: Notice how mosquitoes always seem to bite where there is the most […]
Red light beats blue mood.
Medical Xpress reports on the colorful work of Ohio State U neuroscientists who have studied the effects of nightlights on depression: In a study involving […]
Controlling rats with OUR BRAINS.
ExtremeTech introduces the technology of the supervillain – the brain-to-brain interface (BBI), a new device that lets humans control animals with their thoughts: Simply by […]
SONG: “Inside My Eyes”
SONG: “Inside My Eyes” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Based on “Fossil brain teaser: New study reveals patterns of dinosaur […]
The Bomb proves that our brains keep growing.
New Scientist gives thanks for the little things in the wake of the Big One. Studying the irradiated cells of bomb-test survivors (that is, all […]
Switching the light on and off to switch OCD on and off.
Nature looks at some strange mice and even stranger methodology used to map their brains – by using light to turn OCD on and off: […]
Breast-feeding grows brains.
Futurity hops on the lactation train with a study that proves breastfed babies grow their brains earlier and better: [T]his is the first imaging study […]
The shape of thoughts.
Science Daily draws a clearer map than ever before showing how complicated networks of neurons – not individual neurons – make thoughts happen: They do […]
Forbes follows how science gets started up.
Frida Polli, one of the financial folks at Forbes, is offering us a look at the sausage-factory of neuroscience funding: In 2007, after 6 years […]
This is how you scare the fearless. Neurologically.
Nature examines the biology of fear – and how researchers have succeeded in creating fear in the fearless: Many studies on animals over the years […]
Watching the thoughts of fishes.
That’s what Science Daily says scientists have been doing when they hook up a probe precise enough to detect a single idea begin to form […]
Don’t sleep. Forget. You are growing old.
Nature explores why our aging brains succumb to insomnia and forgetfulness at the same time: Ageing is associated with the gradual loss of brain cells, […]
High on music.
NPR’s Tom Huizenga wants to know why he gets blissed out when he hears a great musical performance. So he asks musical neurologist Dan Levitin […]
Create your own robo-roach at home!
I looove DIY projects, and this one’s a doozy. Techli’s got the inside scoop on a Chicago science-artist’s system for not only creating remote-controlled cockroaches, […]