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Artificial intelligence can now predict suicide with incredible accuracy

When someone commits suicide, their family and friends can be left with the heartbreaking and answerless question of what they could have done differently. Colin Walsh, data scientist at Vanderbilt...

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Craig Venter’s ‘digital-to-biological converter’ is based on real science

Right now, it prints proteins. In the far future, it could print human babies on Mars. Craig Venter and Elon Musk have even discussed how printed life could help terraform Mars. Venter thinks that...

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Frighteningly accurate ‘mind reading’ A.I. is able to scan brains and guess...

From medical applications like helping dermatologists diagnose skin cancer to teaching robots to get a better grip on the world around them, deep learning neural networks can carry out some pretty...

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AI will help us download meeting notes to our brains by 2030

The internet is overflowing with tips on how to hack your health. From increasing cognitive function by drinking butter-spiked coffee to tracking sleep, stress, and activity levels with increasingly...

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Neuroreality: the New reality is coming. And it’s a brain computer interface

With the release of the Oculus Rift in March 2016, the age of virtual reality (VR) truly began. VR tech had been generating buzz since the 1990s, but the Rift was the first high-end VR system to reach...

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If you upload your mind to a computer, are you immortal or just a bot?

Immortality has gone secular. Unhooked from the realm of gods and angels, it’s now the subject of serious investment—both intellectual and financial—by philosophers, scientists, and the Silicon Valley...

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Nerve implant ‘restores consciousness’ to man in vegetative state

Stimulation of the vagus nerve allows patient who had been in a persistant vegetative state for 15 years to track objects with his eyes and respond to simple requests. A 35-year-old man who had been in...

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How your personality type affects your health

What Are the Health Risks Associated With Your Personality Type? Could your personality type be harming you, or is your personality actually helping you live a longer life? Our personalities play such...

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Will we ever be able to upload a mind to a new body?

In Altered Carbon, the body no longer matters. As one character quipped: “You shed it like a snake sheds its skin.” That’s because the human consciousness has been digitized, and can be moved between...

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Where do you go when you die? The increasing signs that human consciousness...

Clinically, we understand death to mean the state that takes hold after our hearts stop beating. Blood circulation comes to a halt, we don’t breathe, our brains shut down—and that’s what divides the...

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We’re starting to learn some incredible things about hypnosis

About 15% of the population is way more hypnotisable than everybody else. There is increasing scientific evidence to say that hypnosis is an important psychological tool with some exciting...

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Scientists have connected the brains of 3 people, enabling them to share...

Are you thinking what I’m thinking? Neuroscientists have successfully hooked up a three-way brain connection to allow three people share their thoughts – and in this case, play a Tetris-style game. The...

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Can tiny doses of magic mushrooms unlock creativity?

Preliminary study suggests that ‘microdoses’ of psychedelics may enhance a person’s creative problem solving abilities The use of minute doses of magic mushrooms and truffles containing psychedelic...

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Brains of 3 people have been successfully connected, enabling them to share...

Neuroscientists have successfully hooked up a three-way brain connection to allow three people to share their thoughts – and in this case, play a Tetris-style game. The team thinks this wild experiment...

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Chinese scientists have put human brain genes in monkeys—and yes, they may be...

A quest to understand how human intelligence evolved raises some ethical questions. Human intelligence is one of evolution’s most consequential inventions. It is the result of a sprint that started...

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Neuroscientists decode brain speech signals into written text

Study funded by Facebook aims to improve communication with paralysed patients The study recording brain signals sent to trigger organ movement is considered a breakthrough. When Stephen Hawking wanted...

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A map of the brain could help to guess what you’re reading

A 3D map of how the brain responds to words could unlock new ways to understand and treat dyslexia and speech disorders. Map-making: Researchers at UC Berkeley used functional MRI to measure nine...

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Cambridge scientists reverse ageing process in rat brain stem cells

Aged rat brain stem cells grown on a soft surface (right) show more healthy, vigorous growth than similar aged brain stem cells grown on a stiff surface (left) New research reveals how increasing brain...

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Mini-brains grown in a lab have human-like brain activity

A new study promises new paths to research mental illness, but raises questions about whether so-called organoids could develop consciousness Alysson Muotri was dumbfounded when the pea-sized blobs of...

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Dunbar’s number: Why we can only maintain 150 relationships

The theory of Dunbar’s number holds that we can only really maintain about 150 connections at once. But is the rule true in today’s world of social media? If you’ve ever been romantically rejected by...

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