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Neuralink: Elon Musk's Bet on the Brain On January 28, 2024, Elon Musk tweeted: "The first human received an implant from Neuralink yesterday and is recovering well." That's it. That's how we found out that the most ambitious brain-computer interface project in

The Line Between Brain and Machine Is Already Blurring In 2012, a woman named Jan Scheuermann fed herself chocolate for the first time in nine years. Jan has spinocerebellar degeneration—a progressive disease that had taken away her ability to move anything below her neck. She couldn't scratch

Neural Interfaces The Line Between Brain and Machine Is Already Blurring The Core Insight Your brain is an electrical organ. Neurons communicate through voltage spikes—tiny electrical pulses that propagate across networks of billions of cells. Those spikes encode everything: perception, memory, intention, consciousness. We're learning to read

Synthesis: What Neuroscience Actually Tells Us About Being Human After seven articles exploring the frontiers of brain science—connectomics, optogenetics, glial cells, neuroinflammation, the default mode network, and predictive processing—it's time to step back and ask the harder question: What does any of this mean for understanding

Motor Prosthetics: Restoring Movement In 2006, Matthew Nagle became the first human to control a computer cursor with an implanted brain electrode array. He had been paralyzed from the neck down after a stabbing four years earlier. Now, with 96 tiny electrodes in his motor cortex, he could move a

Synchron: The Less Invasive Competitor Here's a question that keeps neurosurgeons up at night: what if we could put a device in someone's brain without actually cutting into their brain? Tom Oxley, a neurologist from Melbourne, thought about this problem for years. The obvious barrier to