A freely moving rat carrying the wireless RAPIDO brain implant. (Jae-Woong Jeong/KAIST) Could a scientist intervene in a brain experiment on the other side of the world without leaving their desk?

In a laboratory, a pea-sized clump of human brain cells grown from stem cells did something that startled the scientists ...

A team of brain specialists at the California Institute of Technology has developed a brain–computer interface (BCI) approach to decode words "spoken" entirely in the brain by recording signals from ...

In the well-known thought experiment known as the prisoner's dilemma, one individual has to decide whether to stay silent or talk to the police about their crime based on how they anticipate an ...

Researchers have figured out how to temporarily look straight through a living brain tissue with minimal invasiveness and interference in its processes. Japanese researchers at Kyushu University ...

A recent groundbreaking experiment in which anesthesia was administered to rats has convinced some scientists that tiny structures in the rodents’ brains are responsible for the experience of ...

Learn how theta activity may tag certain experiences during learning, helping the brain choose what to process during sleep.

Smiles activated a distinct canine brain network, while fear produced patterns different from other negative expressions.

Mindia Wichert has taken part in plenty of brain experiments as a cognitive-neuroscience graduate student at the Humboldt University of Berlin, but none was as challenging as one he faced in 2023.