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Anthropic Says Chatbots Have What May Be a Key Feature of Consciousness. Are They Right?
Posted in Hardware, Science, Software on 18th Jul, 2026
by Alexander Muller
Claude appears to have a normally invisible set of internal representations that guide its reasoning and output, which the company argues echoes an influential idea known as global workspace theory.
Can Psychedelics Reboot Aging Brains? We're About to Find Out
Posted in Medicine, Science on 17th Jul, 2026
by Alexander Muller
Psilocybin is an intriguing candidate for counteracting some of the physical and emotional changes that come with aging
How the Bilingual Brain Switches Languages With Ease
Posted in Science on 16th Jul, 2026
by Alexander Muller
Bilingual speakers seem to switch effortlessly between languages, even reviving a long-unused one with just a little exposure. Scientists have long puzzled over how the brain manages this.
Scientists Find a Surprising New Way Stress Cascades From Brain to Body
Posted in Medicine, Science on 15th Jul, 2026
by Alexander Muller
A newly discovered brain-gut-bone marrow highway in mice could inspire strategies to protect immunity from chronic stress.
Could Genetically Engineered Brain Cells Be the Key to Beating Alzheimer's?
Posted in Medicine, Science on 6th May, 2026
by Alexander Muller
Alzheimer's has beaten every treatment thrown at it for a hundred years. That record won't be broken easily. But engineering the brain to clean itself up from the inside is a meaningfully different kind of attack, and one that, for the first time in a while, feels genuinely worth watching.