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Focus: Want details on Elon Musk's brain implant trial? You'll have to ask him reut.rs/3w7Tm3k

An experimental Alzheimer's treatment involving sounds and flickering lights may slow cognitive decline by ramping up our brain's waste disposal networks. newscientist.com/article/241959…

Currently being eaten alive by that stage of life where you're barely in touch with your oldest, best friends so you can really maximise your focus on all the grimmest and most tedious makework life has to offer. Yes, I will be picking up this book.

A 'dormant' black hole is one that is not currently consuming any matter. That means it is hungry. Do not approach. newscientist.com/article/242677…

What is the difference between electroceuticals and bioelectronic medicine and neuromodulation? If one works, will they all? It took me 6 months to untangle this terminological rat king. Eternal gratitude to Rachel Courtland for guiding me out of the rabbit holes technologyreview.com/2024/05/30/109…

This month, We Are Electric is in paperback! The US version has a nifty afterword about the electric signals that drive your gut and how they (may) interface with the electric signals in the gut/brain axis. It's out on June 11!

Finally found some time to binge Christie Aschwanden's new podcast, Uncertain. It's excellent! This is my favourite episode. It's about finding the strength not to double down when you're wrong. Which is really hard. scientificamerican.com/podcast/episod…

Can the hive mind please help me with a dead end? I'm looking for info on a 70s-era researcher called Jean Pierre Biscar. He was a physics prof at U of Wyoming from 1969-75. If you know someone who knew him, or understood his theories, please get in touch [email protected]

Breakthrough proton battery beats lithium limit, boasts 3,500 charging cycles interestingengineering.com/energy/breakth…

First it was the plants that seemed to be unaccountably smart. Then came the fungi, the bacteria, the paramecia, the cells -- evidence is piling up that things can do brainy things without having brains. But what does it all mean? My latest for @Noema noemamag.com/a-radical-new-…