Neurons in a Dish Learn to Play Pong
Hundreds of thousands of human neurons growing in a dish coated with electrodes have been taught to play a version of the classic computer game Pong. In doing so, the cells…
Hundreds of thousands of human neurons growing in a dish coated with electrodes have been taught to play a version of the classic computer game Pong. In doing so, the cells…
The sage-green, waist-high shrub guayule might look like just one of the many scraggly bushes that dot the hills and valleys of the Chihuahuan Desert in Mexico and the southwestern…
Neurons that transmit pain signals in the gut lining of mice are linked to the production of mucus that may maintain a healthy microbiome Health 14 October 2022 By Jason…
A southern sunfish (Mola alexandrini) found dead off the coast of Faial Island in the Azores has broken the record for the world’s heaviest bony fish – though there are…
A brain decoder can extract words and sentences from the brain recordings of people listening to stories or watching silent films Technology 14 October 2022 By Alex Wilkins Functional MRI…
The UK government has missed chances to maximise vaccine manufacturing capacity and has no strategic plan for research that could help prevent another pandemic, Kate Bingham, the former head of…
Hurricane Ian may have destroyed the financial security of thousands of Florida retirees whose life savings were invested in houses and condos lost to the storm’s winds and flooding. Post-storm…
Smoke began billowing into the skies of northwestern Nevada in September, clouding the mountains, dimming the sun—and quashing residents’ hopes that they would be spared from wildfires and the awful…
Around 67 million years ago in what is now North Dakota, a duck-billed dinosaur keeled over and died, and crocodiles’ ancient relatives descended on the carcass, tearing holes through the…
Rats kept awake after exploring novel objects remembered the original items, but not where they’d seen them, raising interesting questions about human sleep.