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  • 2024 Summer Research Fellowship: High-Schoolers Design Brain-Machine Interfaces
    Experiment
    2024 Summer Research Fellowship: High-Schoolers Design Brain-Machine Interfaces
    • July 4, 2024
    • by Jelena Ciric
    Move aside, air guitars! Thanks to one of our latest projects, it is now possible to air-conduct music so that it actually changes in tempo and volume as you move your arms. This so-called neuro:baton is just one of 12 cool projects being developed on our 2024 Summer Research Fellowship that’s firing up as we speak. […]
  • Can First Responders Handle Stress Better? Teen Investigates and Wins Science Fairs Using Human SpikerBox
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    Can First Responders Handle Stress Better? Teen Investigates and Wins Science Fairs Using Human SpikerBox
    • May 15, 2024
    • by Jelena Ciric
    Related Post: High School Students Publish a Paper on Plant Physiology in a Notable Journal It’s tested and proven: Paramedics, firefighters, police officers and other first responders are almost twice as likely to develop PTSD (Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder) at some point in their lives than the rest of us. Still, many of them are either unaware […]
  • High School Students Publish a Paper on Plant Physiology in a Notable Journal
    Education
    High School Students Publish a Paper on Plant Physiology in a Notable Journal
    • April 4, 2024
    • by Tim Marzullo
    In an article we previously published in June 2022 about our scientific paper that dealt with play behavior in fish, I concluded at the end of the article: “I think it is possible for novices and high school students to publish papers (and it is the dream and goal of our team)… That is why we […]
  • Amateur Scientist Tries to Hack Human-Human Interface to Treat His Own Spinal Cord Injury
    Experiment
    Amateur Scientist Tries to Hack Human-Human Interface to Treat His Own Spinal Cord Injury
    • March 5, 2024
    • by Jelena Ciric
    We’ve been doing it for 10 years already: connecting two humans so that one uses their own brain signals to control the other one’s limb. But how about hooking up two limbs of a single human so that one limb can control the other? This is exactly what Gianni Garulli, a hardware and firmware developer from […]
  • The Slime Mold Chronicles: Cracking the (Intelligent?) Behavior of the Brainless
    Experiment
    The Slime Mold Chronicles: Cracking the (Intelligent?) Behavior of the Brainless
    • July 28, 2023
    • by Jelena Ciric
    — Written by Amanda Putti & Milica Milosevic — Well we made it! We’re at the final week of the BYB Fellowship! We faced many challenges throughout this project and had to pivot in order to get results, but we are happy where it ended. To give updates on our progress, let’s first start where we left […]
  • The Pinocchio Illusion: How My Nose Grew Without Lying
    Experiment
    The Pinocchio Illusion: How My Nose Grew Without Lying
    • July 27, 2023
    • by Jelena Ciric
    — Written by Milica Manojlovic — We are all familiar with the Pinocchio story, right? A wooden boy whose nose would grow every time he lied. What if I told you that, with the right equipment, you could feel like Pinocchio in a just few minutes? All you need is a massager (>50 Hz frequency and >1mm […]
  • For the Love of Bugs: New Peer-Reviewed Paper on Open Citizen Science
    Education
    For the Love of Bugs: New Peer-Reviewed Paper on Open Citizen Science
    • February 23, 2023
    • by Jelena Ciric
    We could be living through the 6th mass extinction, but there’s encouraging news: the preservation of insect biodiversity begins in our backyards. And it doesn’t need all of us to be Jane Goodalls. All we need is a cheap ERG bioamplifier, a smartphone, some patience, and as little (or as much!) scientific training as we […]
  • Our New Book
    Education
    Our New Book "How Your Brain Works" Launched at SfN 2022!
    • November 30, 2022
    • by Jelena Ciric
    We almost ran out of pens at the world’s biggest neuroscience conference! This year’s Society for Neuroscience (SfN) was the first in-person meeting since 2019. And we’re really happy that it happened. Firstly, we’ve so missed the nerdy vibes of sci-comm bustle. Secondly, taking a stroll under palms in sunny San Diego feels really nice […]
  • DIY Neuroscience at 2022 USA Fencing Nationals: Where Science Meets Foil & Epee
    Experiment
    DIY Neuroscience at 2022 USA Fencing Nationals: Where Science Meets Foil & Epee
    • July 15, 2022
    • by Jelena Ciric
    What do neuroscience and fencing have in common? This was a question asked—and answered!— by Supriya Nair, high-schooler and neurofencer from Washington State. After winning WA State Science Fair two years in a row using our gear, this young scientist took the opportunity to present her neurofencing research at US Fencing Nationals in Minneapolis—and volunteered […]
  • New Peer-Reviewed Paper on Fish Play Behavior (Classroom-Friendly Experiment!)
    Education
    New Peer-Reviewed Paper on Fish Play Behavior (Classroom-Friendly Experiment!)
    • July 12, 2022
    • by Jelena Ciric
    Cats and dogs aren’t the only pets fond of chasing things that run away from them. Aquarium fish do it too, as shown in our new peer-reviewed paper that came out just last week in the “Animals” journal! Out of 66 fish species observed, nearly 90% showed interest in or set out to chase moving […]
  • Young Neurofencer Wins Washington Science Fair (2nd Year in a Row) Using SpikerBox
    Experiment
    Young Neurofencer Wins Washington Science Fair (2nd Year in a Row) Using SpikerBox
    • May 2, 2022
    • by Jelena Ciric
    Swift and agile musclework and bladework is all you need to be a good fencer. Or is it? As it turns out thanks to Supriya Nair, an eighth-grader from Redmond, WA, the brain and heart have their fair share in it too! The young scientist’s research project on neurofencing just won her yet another first place […]
  • Dog and Cat EKG: Recording Electrocardiograms in Humans' Favorite Companions
    Experiment
    Dog and Cat EKG: Recording Electrocardiograms in Humans' Favorite Companions
    • January 15, 2022
    • by Jelena Ciric
    — Written by Tim Marzullo — All vertebrate animals have hearts (and many invertebrates too), and many have EKGs that can be non-invasively recorded as commonly done in humans. We have fairly hairless bodies, so we can easily put sticker electrodes on our wrists or chests to record our EKG.  However, many of us share our households […]
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