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Kwabena Boahen got his first computer in 1982, when he was a teenager living in Accra. “It was a really cool device,” he recalls. He...

Navigate the brain in a way that was never before possible; fly through major brain pathways, compare essential circuits, zoom into a region to explore...

A paper published in a special edition of the journal Science proposes a novel understanding of brain architecture using a network representation of connections within...

A self-described "biohacker" had a big electronic chip — almost as large as a deck of cards — inserted beneath the skin of his arm....

The Opto-electrical effect can be used to control the passage of DNA molecules through nanopore sensors, thereby leading to more accurate sensing and sequencing of...

Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron is one of the good guys. Known simply as Bt, it is an abundant member of the estimated 500 to 1,000 species of...

Scientists have created a virtual model of the brain that daydreams like humans do. Researchers created the computer model based on the dynamics of brain...

Today, scientists from IBM (NYSE: IBM) and Singapore's Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (IBN) published a breakthrough drug-delivery technique, demonstrating the first biodegradable, biocompatible and...

Tufts University biologists using new, automated training and testing techniques have found that planarian flatworms store memory outside their brains and, if their heads are...

Bioengineers have developed a new method of replacing missing teeth with a bioengineered material generated from a person's own gum cells. Current implant-based methods of...

A team of researchers of the Babes-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca, a city in NW Romania, has created a recipe for artificial blood whose preliminary tests...

Light enhances brain activity during a cognitive task even in some people who are totally blind, according to a study conducted by researchers at the...

When you look at the hands of a clock or the streets on a map, your brain is effortlessly performing computations that tell you about...