The idea of controlling machines with one’s mind used to be a staple of a certain kind of science fiction. Now it’s quickly becoming reality. Implantable brain-computer interfaces, or BCIs, have ...

Professor Richard Scolyer, renowned pathologist and joint Australian of the Year (2024), has died at the age of 59. Scolyer captured the attention of Australians and the world when he volunteered to ...

For a child diagnosed with neuroblastoma—the most common infant cancer, occurring when early nerve cells grow out of ...

The temptation to see the human brain as a kind of machine has been around for a long time. Marvin Minsky, a pioneer in artificial intelligence, used to provocatively call humans “meat machines”.

BACKGROUND: Hypertension induces structural and functional damage in multiple organs. Evidence of subclinical damage ...