According to scientists at Columbia University, neurons in the brain can be programmed to operate in unison, meaning that an entire can be reactivated by simply stimulating only one neuron. Although the research is currently in its early stages, the team believes that these sets of brain cells could serve as major building blocks of…
Technological advancements in recent years has unlocked a sea of startling possibilities, including the much-dreaded ability to read people's minds. As part of a recent research, scientists from the University of Oregon have built an ingenious system that, they claim, can read your thoughts and memories through brain scans, putting the information on screen for…
Science aficionados by now must know about the '10 percent of the brain myth' that entails the misconception that most of us common folk only use ten percent of brain. However this time around a group of scientists at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, have concluded that our brain actually has ten-times more memory…