Is Plant ‘Intelligence’ Just a Human Fantasy?
Although plants make up over 80% of the biomass on Earth, for centuries they have been thought of as inanimate and passive things. Researchers even coined the term “plant blindness” to refer to a cognitive bias that literally makes our brains zone out plants in our view and underestimate their importance. But as research into…
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Sofia Quaglia
Scientists See Human-Like Brain Waves in Lab-Grown Mini-Brains
One way that scientists can non-invasively study the human brain is by growing “mini-brains,” clusters of brain cells each about the size of a pea, in the lab. In a fascinating progression of this line of research, a team this week reports that they observed human-like brainwaves from these organoids. Previous studies of mini-brains have…
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Sarah Wells
