8+ hour, 12+ min ago   (694+ words) Prominent Allen Institute neuroscientist Christof Koch hit the news again recently, suggesting that the brain does not create consciousness. That is very much at odds with the current neuroscience perspective, set out in a journal article by J. L. Saver and J. Rabin…...

9+ hour, 2+ min ago   (118+ words) Published Aug 16, 2026 1:02 PM EDT What do you get when you let an endless feed of AI fruitslop videos loose on screen-addicted kids? A great recipe for violent extremism, it turns out. A new analysis by researchers at the Global Network…...

7+ hour, 10+ min ago   (33+ words) The memories you trust most may not be recordings of the past. They may be stories your brain keeps rebuilding. Think about your strongest childhood …...

12+ hour, 13+ min ago   (465+ words) We know that dogs are incredibly sensitive to their human companions' emotions. But what about dogs reading the emotions of strangers? Tests measuring dogs' brain activity show that it's far more than simple familiarity with humans that allows dogs to…...

12+ hour, 6+ min ago   (529+ words) Automatic sleep staging is fundamental for diagnosing sleep disorders and enabling long-term sleep monitoring with wearable devices. Although Deep Learning has significantly improved classification performance, balancing accuracy with computational efficiency remains challenging, particularly for resource-constrained systems. This paper proposes a…...

14+ hour, 4+ min ago   (39+ words) Nanowerk Artificial neuron harnesses semiconductor noise for brain-inspired computing A semiconductor neuron turns electrical noise into a tunable computing resource, accurately processing signals from human motion to speech for low-power AI....

12+ hour, 20+ min ago   (297+ words) To tackle this question, the researchers applied a framework known as compositional control, a concept borrowed from control theory and robotics. In this framework, complex behavior emerges from a dynamic combination of simpler goal-directed strategies, while a higher-level "meta-controller" continuously…...

20+ hour, 8+ min ago   (262+ words) A group of researchers from the University of Cambridge has discovered why blocking and stimulating the GIP receptor in the brain produce the same result — weight loss. ScienceDaily reports on the findings of the study. Targeting receptors involved in appetite…...

13+ hour, 23+ min ago   (882+ words) By Eyal Samuel Shachar | August 16, 2026 Someone in the U.S. experiences a stroke every 40 seconds. For many survivors, the rehabilitation journey is extremely long and defined by physical limitations, inconsistent access to therapy, and the challenge of rebuilding neural pathways that have…...

9+ hour, 17+ min ago   (1002+ words) No matter how hard we try, remembering anything that happened to us before the age of, say, 3 or 4 years old feels impossible. Even memories before 7 years old feel hazy and fragmented. Our brains just aren’t built to store specific memories…...