Academic teams from Research Triangle High School and Jordan-Matthews face off in the April 11, 2026, edition of Brain Game.

No, this isn’t science fiction. Real-life researchers taught a dish of roughly 200,000 living human brain cells to play the classic 1990s computer game “Doom.” Experts at Cortical Labs, an Australian ...

Clumps of mouse brain cells about the size of peppercorns can gain the knowhow to perform a virtual circus trick. With some coaching, these mouse brain organoids learned to keep a pole upright on a ...

The psychology of game design relies heavily on behavioral conditioning. Grasp the science behind dopamine loops before you open your next digital loot box.

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Air Force veteran Bill Gaskin made a life for himself by making things with his own hands, from canoes to the Dover, New Hampshire, home he shares with his wife, Deb. At 58, Gaskin was diagnosed with ...

BEAUFORT COUNTY, N.C. (WITN) - A father whose son lives with a rare brain disorder is rucking five marathons in five days across eastern North Carolina, hoping every mile brings children like his son ...

In 2022, the team at Cortical Labs taught 800,000 brain cells in a petri dish connected to a computer how to play the 1970s game Pong. Now, years later, the same team is leveling up as they claim ...

A new study using Medicare claims to identify Alzheimer’s and dementia diagnoses shows that playing a free online speed-training video game (and booster sessions) may offer protective benefits.

A cluster of lab-grown human brain cells has apparently made the leap to successfully playing a very rudimentary video game without the benefit of eyes, ears, or any kind of sensory input. It's a far ...