Brain
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Researcher Wires Four Rats’ Brains Together – Creates Bizarre Organic “Brainet”
At Duke University a researcher who’s pioneering brain-computer interfaces has circuited four rats’ together via their brains and created a gooey and organic “Brainet”. Miguel Nicolelis, the neurobiologist pioneering this neuroengineering...
Russian Man Volunteers for First – Probably Last – Head Transplant by Controverisal Neuroscientist
Ripped right out of hundreds of science fiction, comic book and horror stories comes news that a Russian man has decided to be a medical guinea pig or possibly a pioneer…. By having his head removed and attached to another body. Suffering...
Ancient Sea Creature Brain Discovered in China
Anomalocaridids. That’s the name for a bucket of strange insect-like creatures with terrifying pincers that crawled around on the ground billions of years ago and ate other, not-as-scary insect-like creatures with only semi-terrifying...
Man Hears People Speak Before Their Lips Move!
Who hasn’t made fun of old, out-of-sync kung fu movies or Godzilla movies? But what if you woke up one day and that’s how you actually saw/heard the world? That’s currently how only one person ever known to science now hears/sees the...
Researchers Record the Moment of Inception…in a Hungry Zebrafish. We’re Next!
‘Squirrel!’ Ever wonder what it looked like at the inception point of a thought? Like when your watching ‘fail videos’ online and you do that mental cringe at the exact moment that you’re watching someone sledding down a hill on an oil-pan...
Doctors Put Woman’s Skull In Her Belly!
Hell’s Canyon is a name where you actually expect weird stuff to happen on a regular basis. Knowing that Hell’s Canyon is in Idaho only makes it worse. For 36 year-old American beauty queen Jamie Hilton it got worse. During a fishing trip...
I Know Kung-Fu: Super Fast, Unconscious Matrix-Style Learning Possible
New research out of Boston University and the ATR Computational Neuroscience Laboratories in Kyoto, Japan suggests that the kind of super-fast “information upload” style learning upgrades imagined in the Matrix films could be a reality....
New Illusion Demonstrates How Our Brains Construct A 3D Illusion From 2D Image
New research has shown the there are specific, consistent patterns that create the illusion of 3D images in our brains. It is created by stimulating specific nerve cells. Researchers created a 2D image designed to excite those nerves...