You might think spending time on your smartphone or computer is bad for your brain. Indeed, “brain rot” — the slang term for a mental decline caused by mindlessly consuming social media or digital ...

The brain-computer interface wars have begun. For years, startups and academic researchers have been experimenting on humans and animals with placing sensors on or near the brain to deepen our ...

In a town on the shores of Lake Geneva sit clumps of living human brain cells for hire. These blobs, about the size of a ...

In this system, the implanted computer chip would not just sit on the brain, but become part of the brain. Using a technology ...

On Sunday’s episode of The Excerpt podcast: Brain-computer interfaces promise breakthroughs in restoring lost function and beyond. But they also raise ethical and societal questions about the linking ...

If this neuromorphic machine is real, it’s a milestone for neuroscience—and a test of what AI can and can’t replace.

Brain-computer interfaces are a groundbreaking technology that can help paralyzed people regain functions they’ve lost, like moving a hand. These devices record signals from the brain and decipher the ...

Brain-computer interfaces are a groundbreaking technology that can help paralyzed people regain functions they’ve lost, like moving a hand. These devices record signals from the brain and decipher the ...

A New York-based biotech firm announced it has raised an additional $200 million in financing to advance commercialization of ...

Synchron successfully implanted the first FDA-approved brain-computer interface in a U.S. patient with ALS. The device ...

Even newer “minimally invasive” ideas, like stent-mounted electrodes deployed through blood vessels, still require a catheter ...