The human brain holds a staggering number of connections, yet scientists have long struggled to explain how it stores so much ...

Recent research indicates a link between an animal’s gut bacteria and brain function. This may be true in humans, too.

Scientists have trained a computer made from living human neurons to play the classic video game Doom, marking a strange but important step forward in biological computing. A clump of roughly 200,000 ...

In findings that raise a variety of questions about how our brains work, and even about the nature of consciousness, UC Santa Barbara researchers and collaborators report that only a small section of ...

As a researcher, I still remember the discomfort I felt every time I had to sacrifice laboratory animals for an experiment.

AI has all but overtaken the thinking universe. Training an early version of ChatGPT consumes about 1300 megawatt-hours of ...

In films like The Matrix and Ex Machina, the boundary between biological intelligence and machines dissolves. Human minds are wired into computers, artificial beings develop awareness, and the line ...

Add Futurism (opens in a new tab) Adding us as a Preferred Source in Google by using this link indicates that you would like to see more of our content in Google News results. Earlier this year, John ...

In a development straight out of science fiction, Australian startup Cortical Labs has released what it calls the world’s first code-deployable biological computer. The CL1, which debuted in March, ...