While the 80-year-old at the library radiated joy teaching geometry to a teenager, the 60-year-old across from her sat lifeless, scrolling through his phone — a stark reminder that the secret to aging ...

Inside this Greek Revival beauty is a freestanding spiral staircase that seems to laugh in the face of physics and common sense. This isn’t just any staircase, mind you. This is a self-supporting ...

New research breaks it down.

How many brain cells does it take to play a game of Doom?

A computer platform that runs on human neurons (and recently showed off said neurons’ ability to play DOOM) now wants in on the data center boom. Australia-based Cortical Labs announced today that it ...

In 2024, Elon Musk's Neuralink implant allowed a quadriplegic patient to play RuneScape and Slay the Spire in his brain. But now, scientists are taking things further, training lab-grown brain cells ...

Researchers at Australian start-up Cortical Labs have taught human neurons grown on a chip to play the classic Doom game. In 2021, they had already used 800,000 neurons to play Pong. Now, with four ...

After training neurons to play Pong, the team is back, and this time the brain cells are slaying demons with super shotguns.

It’s worth knowing whether you’re just playing a game you like — or maybe also improving your brain chemistry.

A certain type of brain training appears to prevent or delay dementia by some 25% in people older than age 65, according to new research.Surprisingly, it wasn't memory or problem-solving tasks that ...

In a groundbreaking experiment, researchers have achieved a remarkable feat that blurs the lines between biology and technology. Cortical Labs has cultivated 800K brain cells in a petri dish, ...