Brain

An electrical-stimulation technology with promising new uses comes from a dark age that still has a lot to teach us.

Forget what you may have heard about neural networks in software. This startup is making a computer with living neurons.

Michael Pollan explores the neuroscience of psychedelics in this excerpt from his new book.

With better CPR techniques, more people might live to tell the tale of what happens right before everything slips away.

The same device that is driving you crazy could hold the keys to solving our mental health crisis.

Emotions don’t get in the way of rational thought, says Antonio Damasio. They make it possible.

Psychiatry’s biggest breakthrough in decades might come from machines that don’t need to understand the mind at all.

Doctors could soon prescribe screen time for children with ADHD.

Researchers are finding new links between specific genes and intelligence. Can we use this knowledge to make people smarter?

… where we ask the experts for reading recommendations.

Cory Doctorow’s novel “Walkaway” envisions a future in which the jobless masses co-opt automation technologies to ensure their freedom.

Berkeley researchers may have the perfect authentication device — assuming you’re okay with a computer analyzing your thoughts.

Step one: breathe …

Hardware visionary Mary Lou Jepsen’s next act is to read your mind—no implants required.

Machines programmed to explore could lead to smarter AI — and show us how to unlock capacities lying dormant in our own brains.