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Before humans sent the first dogs and chimps into space, there was genuine fear: Can a living creature evolved for gravity survive in sustained zero-G? Many posited that the result would be fatal, as gas bubbles formed in the veins or stomach acid rose to eat the body from within. …

An article in the peer-reviewed journal Science Advances reports that researchers have developed an innovative technique for generating captions from brain activity. Before you mentally review all the thoughts you had today, take a deep breath. The technology can’t read the thoughts of random people. The process requires brain scans …

Every company even tangentially involved in technology is currently obsessed with generative AI, which has led to some fascinating and occasionally useful tools. However, the cost to access some of these services is surprisingly high. Training and running AI models are hugely expensive, but new research from the University of …

Google is no longer treating artificial intelligence like a side project—Microsoft and OpenAI have seen to that with the public availability of ChatGPT. Google has already started reorganizing to improve its Bard AI. As part of this effort, it’s merging its two AI research groups into one; Google Brain and …

It’s called organoid intelligence, or OI, and it uses actual human brain cells to make computing “more brain-like.” OI revolves around using organoids, or clusters of living tissue grown from stem cells that behave similarly to organs, as biological hardware that powers algorithmic systems. The hope—over at Johns Hopkins, at …

Neuralink aims to create a brain-computer interface (BCI), which would allow a user to control a computer simply by thinking about it. Such technology could be a boon to those with paralysis or another medical condition that affects mobility. It could also lead to novel ways to interact with technology …

A team of paleontologists has digitally reconstructed the facial skeleton and brain endocast of Ichthyornis dispar, a toothed stem bird that lived in North America during the Late Cretaceous epoch and has traditionally been considered the nearest known well-understood relative of living birds. The ancestors of living birds had a …

A team of paleontologists has digitally reconstructed the facial skeleton and brain endocast of Ichthyornis dispar, a toothed stem bird that lived in North America during the Late Cretaceous epoch and has traditionally been considered the nearest known well-understood relative of living birds. The ancestors of living birds had a …

Eating Pickled Capers May Help Improve Brain and Heart Health A duo of researchers from the School of Medicine at the University of California, Irvine has discovered that a compound commonly found in pickled capers, which are the immature flower buds of the caper bush (Capparis spinosa), can directly regulate …

In a study published recently in the journal PLOS Biology, neuroscientists identified three gut bacteria species — Acetobacter pomorum, Lactobacillus plantarum and L. brevis — that have an impact on animal dietary decisions. According to Leitao-Goncalves et al, gut bacteria control food choice and egg laying in Drosophila melanogaster. Image …