Have you ever played a video game that you thought was impossible? Think Dark Souls or Cuphead levels of frustration. Now imagine if you didn’t have hands. Or eyes. Or ears. Or a fully-developed brain ...

A group of scientists out of Melbourne, Australia have proven that brain cells in a dish can learn how to play Pong. The experiment is one of the first times that cells like this have shown the ...

In a groundbreaking study published in the journal Neuron, scientists were, for the first time, able to show that 800,000 living brain cells trapped in a petri dish can be taught how to play Pong. “We ...

Jeremy Gosnell is a science fiction author and freelance writer living in the mountains of Western, Maryland. He's written two traditionally published novels, Neptune's Garden and The Terminal, as ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Scientists have taught 800,000 living brain cells in a dish how to ...

The proto-eyes are what really disturbed me. For the past decade, medical researchers have been growing living, miniature replicas of parts of the human brain from stem cells. Such brain “organoids,” ...

Of the many big, unanswered questions in this Universe, the ones pertaining to the functioning of biological neural networks are probably among the most intriguing. From the lowliest neurally gifted ...