In an experimental procedure dubbed Prima, which has now been performed on a few dozen people, surgeons implant a 2-mm-by-2-mm computer chip with 400 hexagonal electrodes directly on the spot in the ...

As wearable devices begin to tap into our mental states, UN experts warn that without ethical safeguards, the right to ...

By Conor LennonAs wearable devices begin to tap into our mental states, UN experts warn that without ethical safeguards, the ...

A new brain decoding method called mind captioning can generate accurate text descriptions of what a person is seeing or recalling—without relying on the brain's language system.

Neuralink’s first-ever brain implant is turning science fiction into reality. It’s a coin-sized device with hair-thin electrode threads that a surgical robot weaves into the brain’s cortex to read and ...

A team at the Technical University of Munich's TUM University Hospital has implanted a brain‐computer interface in a patient paralyzed from the neck down. The five‐hour procedure was the first of its ...

Altman taps a leading researcher for his brain-computer interface startup, suggesting a much less invasive approach than Elon Musk’s Neuralink. Altman taps a leading researcher for his brain-computer ...

Competition to deploy commercial brain-computer interfaces is heating up. Science Corporation—a competitor to Neuralink founded by the former president of Elon Musk’s brain-interface venture—has ...

Adults with gum disease may be more likely to have signs of damage to the brain's white matter, called white matter hyperintensities, than people without gum disease, according to a study published in ...