Digital engagement is neither inherently benign nor uniformly harmful among young people. Later in life, it can fortify specific cognitive skills through intentional practice.

The Open Brain Institute launches as a not-for-profit organization to make the 18-million-line software recipe to build and simulate mammalian digital brains developed in the Blue Brain Project openly ...

A new study paints a promising picture for the ways that digital technology use affects the aging brain. Neuroscientists at Baylor University and the University of Texas at Austin conducted a ...

Constant notifications and screen time are rewiring your brain. Experts explain how always-on digital habits trigger mental fatigue, poor sleep, and what a digital detox can do.

When we hear the word “twins”, we tend to think of two identical people who share physical traits, and perhaps certain behaviours or quirks. However, in the world of technology this word has a ...

Doomscrolling has taken over our screen time, and neuroscience shows it’s harming the brain. But Gen Z is working to take back their brains—without abandoning the digital world entirely. Qi Lang, ...

At the 2025 World Economic Forum, Henry Markram presented a five-step recipe for building digital brains: populate them with neurons, grow dendrites, grow axons, form synapses, and model the ...

Researchers have crossed a threshold that once belonged squarely to science fiction: they have built working models of brains, both in silicon and in living tissue, that can learn, adapt, and even ...

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