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A clump of human brain cells can play the classic computer game Doom. While its performance is not up to par with humans, experts say it brings biological computers a step closer to useful real-world ...

Caveats accompanied the findings. "Blind leaps from the detection of tumors to the prediction of human health risk should be avoided," one study cautioned. Also, because none of the studies had a ...

If humans ever receive a message from intelligent aliens, the biggest challenge may not be how far away they are, but how to communicate at all. Our nearest star system is more than four light-years ...

Air sacs in the lungs called alveoli are crucial for gas exchange and provide an important barrier against inhaled viruses and bacteria that cause respiratory diseases like flu and tuberculosis (TB).

Facepalm: A Missouri magician and molecular biologist found himself confronting the limits of modern biohacking after accidentally locking himself out of the technology implanted inside his own body.

Nearly two years ago former Texas A&M student Noland Arbaugh became the first person to have a Neuralink chip implanted in his brain to allow him to control movements on a computer with just a thought ...

The truth is out there — and late President George H.W. Bush apparently knew it — telling a federal official that an alien made contact with humans at a secretive New Mexico air base in 1964, ...

Synchron successfully implanted the first FDA-approved brain-computer interface in a U.S. patient with ALS. The device enables paralyzed individuals to communicate and control devices using brain ...

It's been a long time since Alice Charton got a good look at a human face. There are plenty of people moving through her world, of course—her husband, her friends, her doctors, her neighbors—but ...

Microscopic bioelectronic devices could one day autonomously self-implant in a target region of the brain.MIT What if brain surgery could be replaced by a simple injection in the arm? MIT researchers ...