Australian researchers have trained lab-grown brain cells on a silicon computer chip to play the nineties shooter game "Doom" and say they are just scratching the surface of what the neurons could be ...

MELBOURNE, Australia — Australian researchers have trained lab-grown brain cells on a silicon computer chip to play the ...

A remarkable pig brain preservation experiment is fueling new debates about death, memory, and whether future technology could one day recover the human mind.

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Surgeons assume general anesthesia switches off the higher brain. Recordings from single neurons in seven patients show the opposite: while they were unconsciou ...

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