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The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. When Todd Sacktor was about to turn 3, his 4-year-old sister died of leukemia. “An empty bedroom next to mine. …

Emilia Clarke’s Brain Aneurysm Emilia Clarke filmed battle scenes for Game of Thrones, but in 2019, she published an essay in The New Yorker titled “A Battle for My Life.” …

Fireworks can bring out the thrill-(or chill-) seeker in people. Kanawa_Studio/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Kanawa_Studio/Getty Images Fireworks can bring out the thrill-(or chill-) seeker in people. Kanawa_Studio/Getty Images …

Phillip McKenzie, who was paralyzed from the neck down in a fall in 2012, uses a brain-computer interface developed by researchers at the University of Pittsburgh to navigate complex virtual …

Delays and dictionaries One year after the Stanford work, in 2024, Stavisky’s team published its own research on a brain-to-text system that bumped the accuracy to 97.5 percent. “Almost every …

TIME reporter Andrew Chow discussed the findings of a new study about how ChatGPT affects critical thinking with Nataliya Kosymyna. Kosymyna was part of a team of researchers at MIT’s …

In 2022, I was going through motions. I was burned out after shepherding two restaurants through Melbourne’s Covid lockdowns and emotionally burned to the ground by a failed marriage. It …

Before DOGE, there was Twitter. In 2023, Elon Musk seemed too distracted by his latest venture to run the world’s most valuable car company. Tesla was faltering as he focused …

A Bay Area man who advises a “brain emulation” non-profit has revealed a proposal for the federal government to take back a large swath of the former Alameda naval air …

A study of mice and people looks at how the brain takes an experience and responds with an emotion. Andriy Onufriyenko/Moment RF/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Andriy Onufriyenko/Moment RF/Getty …