(Natural News) Health officials in Canada are struggling to figure out the cause of a new, mysterious brain disease that has affected more than 40 people in the country’s southeast. In early March, Canadian officials began alerting doctors and provincial health officials in New Brunswick to tell them that federal health authorities were monitoring a […]

(Natural News) Computer scientist Subhash Kak of Oklahoma State University has suggested that computers can never become truly conscious. In an article published in The Conversation, Kak wrote that the brain operates in an entirely different way and is structurally distinct to computers. The brain doesn’t work the same way as computers The brain handles information differently than computers. Living […]

(Natural News) When it comes to relationships, people can learn a thing or two from millennials. They are choosing to get married much later – and for good reason, experts say. The median age for marriage is 30 for millennial men and 28 for millennial women. In the 1980s, men got married at 24 and women at […]

(Natural News) The idea of scientists implanting “false” memories might seem like a scene straight out of a science-fiction book. But as it turns out, it isn’t as far-fetched as it seems. In a recent study, neuroscientists at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto succeeded in manipulating mice brains into retaining memories that never happened […]

(Natural News) When Elon Musk presented his creepy Neuralink brain implant in a streamed product update on YouTube on Friday, he said he believed that billions of people will be clamoring for it – but real scientists have expressed serious skepticism. The stated goal of Neuralink is to “implant wireless brain-computer interfaces that include thousands […]

(Natural News) Comatose patients are thought to remain in a state of limbo – neither conscious nor unconscious – dubbed the “vegetative state.” The unique nature of this state often complicates treatments and therapies for these patients. For this reason, physicians might be shocked to hear about comatose patients regaining consciousness and snapping out of their condition. But […]

(Natural News) Neuroscientists can now decode real-time spoken and heard speech signals in the brain into written text. Their groundbreaking research, published in the Nature Communications journal, is the first to demonstrate how a person’s intended speech can be drawn from brain signals and decoded into text before the actual act of speech itself. According […]

(Natural News) The thin line between life and death as well as the definition of “brain dead” has long puzzled neuroscientists and even sparked debates, lawsuits and media frenzies. A recent study published in the New England Journal of Medicine, however, has found neural hints of a “hidden consciousness” in patients who went on to make full recoveries […]

(Natural News) Researchers trying to figure out how extraterrestrial life may think are starting to look in different places. In one study, presented at the 2019 Astrobiology Science Conference, a group of researchers from the University of Washington (UWash) in Seattle believe that the way the arms of a cephalopod like the octopus “think” can be a model […]

(Natural News) The ability of babies to learn may be influenced by how their mothers interact with them. Researchers from Dartmouth College and the University of Cambridge in the U.K. found that babies learn when their mothers smile and maintain eye contact with them a lot. In their study, the researchers discovered that babies’ neural activity that […]