People with spinal cord injuries often lose some or all their limb function. In most patients, the nerves in their limbs work fine, and the neurons in their brain are still operational, but the damage ...

Why do some children with autism communicate more easily than others, even when they hear the same words? Researchers from ...

Cancer and Alzheimer’s disease rarely strike the same person, a pattern that has puzzled clinicians for years. Instead of being an odd statistical quirk, new work suggests that tumors might actively ...

A small device that senses light and reacts like a brain cell could change how machines see and think. Built at the nanoscale ...

Meta recently open-sourced Brain2Qwerty v2, a noninvasive Brain–Computer Interface (BCI) that can decode sentences from ...

Scientists have engineered a protein able to record the incoming chemical signals of brain cells (as opposed to just their outgoing signals). These whisper-quiet incoming messages are the release of ...

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Near-infrared spectroscopy, or fNIRS, offers a way to monitor brain activity without surgery or radiation by tracking changes in blood flow and oxygenation. Light sources placed on the scalp send near ...

Signals from an EEG monitoring device could be used to send brain signals to a spinal cord stimulator, helping paralyzed patients control their limbs more effectively. WASHINGTON, Jan. 20, 2026 — ...