Researchers shot lasers into brain cells and triggered illusions on demand—a breakthrough that’s rewriting how we see the ...

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A team at University of Massachusetts Amherst developed artificial neurons that fire in the same voltage range as living ...

It’s estimated it can take an AI model over 6,000 joules of energy to generate a single text response. By comparison, your brain needs just 20 joules every second to keep you alive and cognitive. That ...

We like to think we see the world clearly. But neuroscience tells a different story. Reality isn’t something you witness. It’s something your brain assembles on the fly. Your thoughts, memories, even ...

Recently, Nvidia founder Jensen Huang, whose company builds the chips powering today’s most advanced artificial intelligence systems, remarked: “The thing that’s really, really quite amazing is the ...

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This optical illusion reveals your critical thinking style: spotting the person first shows a detail-focused mind, while seeing the face highlights big-picture thinking. What you notice first reflects ...

I feel a troubling kind of opacity in my brain lately—as if reality were becoming illegible, as if language were a vessel with holes in the bottom and meaning was leaking all over the floor. I ...