Produced by ElevenLabs and News Over Audio (Noa) using AI narration. Listen to more stories on the Noa app. My parents spend half of the year on an island off the coast of North Carolina where ...

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The new study reveals that, during a mouse’s non-rapid eye movement (non-REM) sleep, the brainstem releases waves of norepinephrine (a known hormone similar to adrenaline) about every 50 seconds ...

"We have exciting data to show that activating brain stem cells with our electrical stimulation devices improves functional outcomes in a preclinical model of stroke." More information: Tianhao ...

The Spiking Neural Processor T1 is an AI chip that's modeled on the way the brain detects patterns and could extend the battery life in smart devices. When you purchase through links on our site ...

Founded in 2016, the Fremont, Calif-based Neuralink is currently working on offering digital autonomy to those with quadriplegia. By embedding threads containing electrodes within the human brain ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Bacteria are in, around and all over us. They thrive in almost every corner of the planet, from deep-sea hydrothermal vents to high ...

In 2012, Deborah Cory-Slechta at the University of Rochester, New York, received a “bucket of brains”. A colleague had been studying how air pollution around the university harms the hearts ...

Your brain has a lot of work to do, constantly balancing tasks while conserving energy. If you understand how the human brain decides what to pay attention to—and what to ignore—your public ...

The late teenager has died almost 14 years after being diagnosed with a brain tumor in 2011 Becca Longmire is a digital news writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2024 ...

Jan. 31, 2025 — Prolonged illnesses like cancer and chronic infections often leave the immune system in a state of exhaustion, where its frontline defenders -- T cells -- lose their ability to ...