Scientists Have Grown Human Serotonin Neurons in the Lab
The serotonin neurons can be seen in green.
The serotonin neurons can be seen in green.
People who’ve experienced rude behaviour get infected by it, and transmit it onto who they meet next.
Artificial Intelligence was first dreamed up in the 1950s, but has only recently become a practical reality with the advent of neural networks. These virtual brains are becoming almost scarily clever – here's how they work.
We're one step closer to being able to connect together human brains to create collective consciousness.
It's all about the conflict between senses, like reading in a moving car.
Blame evolution.
Most of us consider vision and hearing to be two separate senses. But dolphins use sound to see, which is called echolocation. A new map of dolphin brain circuitry hints at how the animals do it.
Researchers discovered that the game helps PTSD sufferers to overcome flashbacks.
As inquisitive beings, we are constantly questioning and quantifying the speed of various things. But what about the speed of thought? It’s a challenging question that’s not easily answerable – but we can give it a shot.
Though their conclusions may seem like common sense, these kinds of studies shed light on many aspects of the way behave online.
Well the filmmakers did consult with neuroscientists and psychologists to help make sure they got the science right.
If only we could tap into more of the magnificent, squishy machine in our heads, we’d become quicker, cleverer versions of ourselves. It’d be a lovely idea if it wasn’t a crock of crap.
And does technology help or hinder us when we move to a new place?
Brain-to-brain interfaces possible via injectable-electronics that pass your mental traffic through the cloud? What could go wrong?
It’s even possible that this area of research could one day make our brains programmable.
Science requires the stripping away of all variability, until you have just a single, isolated behaviour to test. But in real life, nothing happens in isolation.
