A couple of years ago, a company called Cortical Labs released a video that showed a simplified version of Pong being played by a culture of human neurons in a Petri dish. The idea that a bunch of ...

Neuron-powered computer chips can now be easily programmed to play a first-person shooter game, bringing biological computers a step closer to useful applications ...

Mercury 2 introduces diffusion LLMs to text, delivering 10x faster speeds for AI agents and production workflows without sacrificing reasoning power.

Perplexity Computer launches with 19 specialized AI models working in parallel to build apps, dashboards, research, and more from a single prompt.

The evidence is solid but not definitive, as the conclusions rely on the absence of changes in spatial breadth and would benefit from clearer statistical justification and a more cautious ...

Arousal fluctuates continuously during wakefulness, yet how these moment-to-moment variations shape large-scale functional connectivity (FC) remains unclear. Here, we combined 7T fMRI with concurrent ...

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New experiments reveal how astrocytes tune neuronal activity to modulate our mental and emotional states. The results suggest that neuron-only brain models, such as connectomes, leave out a crucial ...

It was when she could not grip her pen properly that Lynne O'Neill first realised something was wrong. That was in August 2024. Last month, she was diagnosed with Motor Neurone Disease (MND) at ...

A musician who lost his ability to sing after being diagnosed with motor neurone disease has returned to the stage with the help of artificial intelligence, in a moment he described as deeply personal ...