Tag Archives: Neuroscience

Herculaneum, which appears today. Image: Pierre Paolo Patron The catastrophic eruption of Mount Vesuvius nearly 2,000,000 years ago is famous for rescuing many of its victims in volcanic ash. New research suggests that this defense extends to the cellular level, due to the apparent detection of neurons in a victim …

On Friday, tech entrepreneur Elon Musk showed off a pig whose brain he says was implanted with a small computer. “We have a healthy and happy pig, initially shy but clearly high energy and, you know, a kind of loving life, and she’s been planted for two months,” Musk said …

In the mind by Elon Musk the thirstiest problems of the world are shockingly, wonderfully simple. Traffic in LA Did You Come Down? Here, take a ride on this underground super-luge. Carbon emissions stink the planet? Fix it with a fleet of electric cars – and while we’re at it, …

In addition to responding to electrical and chemical stimuli, many of the body’s neural cells can also respond to mechanical effects, such as pressure or vibration. But these responses have been more difficult for researchers to study because there has been no easily controllable method of inducing such mechanical stimulation …