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Brain function, neural circuits, cognition, brain interfaces, and neuroscience research.

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01 / EXPLORE THROUGH TIME

Timeline

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Two parallel neural ectoderm progenitors contribute to the developing brain↗ med.stanford.edu · HN · 258 comments · 664 points · Sep 19, 2026
De-Brainrot Vacations↗ devz.cl · HN · 210 comments · 518 points · Sep 07, 2026
Cerebras CS-4↗ cerebras.ai · HN · 275 comments · 464 points · Aug 19, 2026
The brain was not designed for this much bad news↗ sciencedaily.com · HN · 350 comments · 457 points · Jun 21, 2026
New research suggests people can communicate and practice skills while dreaming↗ newyorker.com · HN · 271 comments · 463 points · May 01, 2026
20251,086 stories
40 percent of fMRI signals do not correspond to actual brain activity↗ tum.de · HN · 206 comments · 503 points · Dec 16, 2025
Pebble Index 01 – External memory for your brain↗ repebble.com · HN · 588 comments · 593 points · Dec 09, 2025
Human brains are preconfigured with instructions for understanding the world↗ news.ucsc.edu · HN · 304 comments · 461 points · Nov 25, 2025
Cerebras Code↗ cerebras.ai · HN · 172 comments · 449 points · Aug 01, 2025
I deleted my second brain↗ joanwestenberg.com · HN · 348 comments · 598 points · Jun 28, 2025
20241,236 stories
An adult fruit fly brain has been mapped↗ economist.com · HN · 192 comments · 594 points · Oct 02, 2024
Pattern of brain damage is pervasive in Navy SEALs who died by suicide↗ nytimes.com · HN · 575 comments · 663 points · Jun 30, 2024
Cubic millimetre of brain mapped at nanoscale resolution↗ nature.com · HN · 201 comments · 520 points · May 09, 2024
Why does holding a key fob to your head increase its range?↗ physics.stackexchange.com · HN · 147 comments · 603 points · Jan 09, 2024
What does the cerebellum do?↗ sarahconstantin.substack.com · HN · 206 comments · 434 points · Jan 07, 2024
20231,230 stories
Researchers discover neuronal biomarkers of schizophrenia in the blood↗ hmri.org.au · HN · 65 comments · 117 points · Dec 23, 2023
Lena (MMAcevedo, the earliest executable image of a human brain)↗ qntm.org · HN · 4 comments · 30 points · Dec 05, 2023
Star neuroscientist may have manipulated data to support a major stroke trial↗ science.org · HN · 19 comments · 59 points · Dec 01, 2023
Gut–brain axis study shows autism-associated molecular, microbial profiles↗ nature.com · HN · 36 comments · 28 points · Aug 02, 2023
Brain fog after Covid-19 has similarities to ‘chemo brain,’ Stanford-led study↗ med.stanford.edu · HN · 1 comments · 27 points · Jun 14, 2023
20221,116 stories
Video gaming may be associated with better cognitive performance in children↗ nida.nih.gov · HN · 316 comments · 451 points · Oct 26, 2022
You want to know something about how bullshit insane our brains are? (2018)↗ twitter.com · HN · 255 comments · 468 points · Aug 01, 2022
Physicists are building neural networks out of vibrations, voltages and lasers↗ quantamagazine.org · HN · 169 comments · 368 points · Jun 01, 2022
Human brain compresses working memories into low-res ‘summaries’↗ directorsblog.nih.gov · HN · 323 comments · 651 points · Apr 12, 2022
A low-cost and shielding-free ultra-low-field brain MRI scanner↗ nature.com · HN · 145 comments · 415 points · Feb 04, 2022
20211,112 stories
Brain implant translates paralyzed man's thoughts into text with 94% accuracy↗ sciencealert.com · HN · 211 comments · 449 points · Nov 10, 2021
Neural implant lets paralyzed person type by imagining writing↗ arstechnica.com · HN · 183 comments · 540 points · May 12, 2021
Multitasking hurts performance and may even damage the brain (2018)↗ linkedin.com · HN · 293 comments · 491 points · May 04, 2021
So I finally sorted out what happened to my brain↗ twitter.com · HN · 289 comments · 394 points · May 01, 2021
The brain ‘rotates’ memories to save them from new sensations↗ quantamagazine.org · HN · 117 comments · 408 points · Apr 16, 2021
20201,107 stories
Sleep duration is associated with brain structure and cognitive performance↗ onlinelibrary.wiley.com · HN · 326 comments · 451 points · Nov 29, 2020
Dance is superior to repetitive physical exercise for brain plasticity (2018)↗ journals.plos.org · HN · 214 comments · 467 points · Jul 25, 2020
“You want to know something about how bullshit insane our brains are?” (2018)↗ twitter.com · HN · 200 comments · 476 points · Jun 21, 2020
Temporal circuit of brain activity supports human consciousness↗ advances.sciencemag.org · HN · 143 comments · 416 points · Apr 09, 2020
Discovering the brain’s nightly “rinse cycle”↗ directorsblog.nih.gov · HN · 169 comments · 534 points · Mar 05, 2020
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02 / CATCH UP

The conversation now

Popular stories, with attention fading over roughly two weeks.

Two parallel neural ectoderm progenitors contribute to the developing brain↗ med.stanford.edu · HN · 258 comments · 664 points · Sep 19, 2026
De-Brainrot Vacations↗ devz.cl · HN · 210 comments · 518 points · Sep 07, 2026
There's no point at which turning your brain off will work↗ danluu.com · HN · 157 comments · 205 points · Sep 18, 2026
Learning another language may be one of the best ways to keep your brain healthy↗ theconversation.com · HN · 120 comments · 140 points · Sep 19, 2026
Aging brains blend memories together instead of just forgetting them↗ studyfinds.com · HN · 156 comments · 353 points · Sep 02, 2026

03 / GO DEEPER

Follow your curiosity

Find a particular story, revisit a year, or see what resonated.

Highest rated · the last 30 days

Two parallel neural ectoderm progenitors contribute to the developing brain↗ med.stanford.edu · HN · 258 comments · 664 points · Sep 19, 2026
De-Brainrot Vacations↗ devz.cl · HN · 210 comments · 518 points · Sep 07, 2026
Aging brains blend memories together instead of just forgetting them↗ studyfinds.com · HN · 156 comments · 353 points · Sep 02, 2026
There's no point at which turning your brain off will work↗ danluu.com · HN · 157 comments · 205 points · Sep 18, 2026
Learning another language may be one of the best ways to keep your brain healthy↗ theconversation.com · HN · 120 comments · 140 points · Sep 19, 2026
Two parallel neural ectoderm progenitors contribute to the developing brain↗ newscientist.com · HN · 81 comments · 136 points · Sep 18, 2026
The race to engineer new knobs for the human brain↗ neuroai.science · HN · 7 comments · 55 points · Sep 02, 2026
Human brain is two separate organs↗ med.stanford.edu · HN · 2 comments · 32 points · Sep 18, 2026
Speaking with the Mind – Neuralink [video]↗ youtube.com · HN · 9 comments · 17 points · Sep 18, 2026
Effects of music training on the child's brain and cognitive development↗ pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov · HN · 0 comments · 14 points · Sep 15, 2026

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