Researchers from Duke-NUS Medical School have found that a new class of light-sensitive proteins are capable of turning off brain cells with light, offering scientists an unprecedentedly effective ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A picture of the microscope system. (CREDIT: Tatsuya Osaki) For decades, scientists have worked to peer deeper into the brain.

Scientists have built a soft, wireless Implant that lets the brain interpret patterned light as if it were a new kind of touch, turning beams into information the cortex can actually use. Instead of ...

In a discovery that sounds like science fiction, researchers have shown that human brains emit flashes of light that can pass through the skull. These signals are so tiny and faint that they're a ...

For decades, scientists have used near-infrared light to study the brain in a noninvasive way. This optical technique, known as fNIRS (functional near-infrared spectroscopy), measures how light is ...

Restoring lost senses or delivering precise brain signals has required invasive hardware and can’t mimic the brain’s natural, distributed activity patterns. This platform shows the brain can learn to ...