Around 200 million animals are used in lab research around the world each year. Organoids may one day replace them.

A brain-computer interface allowed two people who had lost the ability to move their limbs to type at speeds of up to 22 words per minute ...

A familiar trope in science fiction is the cryopreserved time traveller, their body deep-frozen in suspended animation, then ...

Thirty years ago, on March 15, 1996, the bizarre sci-fi sitcom Aliens in the Family premiered, and it was cancelled a week later.

Cortical Labs, the Melbourne-based biotech company that made headlines by teaching neurons to play Pong, is now building two small data centers powered by lab-grown human brain cells in Singapore and ...

Scientists placed 200,000 living human brain cells on a microchip and showed it how to play a shoot-em-up video game — and are now using the dystopian technology to power AI data centers.

Webb has captured the haunting “Exposed Cranium” nebula—an otherworldly cloud shaped by a dying star that looks remarkably like a brain inside a skull.

The FlySilicon Valley startup Eon Systems claims to have successfully uploaded the mind of a fly and placed it inside a simulated environment. The uploaded mind can control a digital body and respond ...

More than a year before his recent standoff with the Pentagon, Dario Amodei, the chief executive of Anthropic, published a 15,000-word manifesto describing a glorious AI future. Its title, “Machines ...

For the first time, researchers have digitally reconstructed the facial fragments of the individual, who belonged to the Australopithecus genus ...

TV fans turn to the science fiction genre for a variety of reasons. Some want to be whisked away to another world, where they ...