The potential benefits of organoids for fundamental research and medicine are huge. Efforts to establish proper boundaries ...

Making music is a mental workout. The brain must simultaneously co-ordinate sound and vision, as well as fine motor control, focus and imagination. Over time this stretches the brain like a muscle.

For people with severe motor impairments, a simple conversation can take minutes instead of seconds. Assistant Professor of Computer Science Dylan Gaines is developing technology to change that, ...

Nineteen young adults handed over their smartphones for three days. When researchers scanned their brains afterward, the resting-state neural activity in regions tied to craving and self-control had ...

Too much screen time — particularly related to social media use in kids, teens and young adults — is a major concern in modern society. Smartphones are ubiquitous. Social media is enticing. And the ...

To get a better look at brains, Harvard researchers are making microscopes work more like human eyes. Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest sci-tech news updates. Until recently, the quest to ...

SAN DIEGO — Scientists have developed better devices to help people with disabilities regain function. These findings will be presented at Neuroscience 2025, the annual meeting of the Society for ...

Humankind stands at an evolutionary crossroads, and the key to our survival lies in awakening a latent potential within the ...

Electrons start behaving strangely when they are squeezed into extremely flat sheets such as graphene, which is just one atom thick. This makes graphene a promising material for generating robust ...