• Neuroscience Pushes Autonomous Cars Forward - Backyard Brains CEO Discussion With TED & Lexus
    Education
    Can you imagine riding on an autonomous car that knows your emotions and thoughts better than you do? Neither can we, but our co-founder and CEO Dr. Greg Gage can, and he isn’t freaked out by the prospect. On the contrary, he’s quite optimistic about it. How come? Human-centered technology is the keyword here. As […]
  • Khan Academy contest offers MASSIVE Scholarship for Student Videos
    Education
    The Khan Academy “2020 Breakthrough Junior Challenge” comes at a time when student engagement in STEM is more critical than ever. If you are a remote student or are a professional (or maybe parent!) educator attempting to transition rapidly into remote/home teaching strategies, this could be an excellent opportunity to turn an at-home-assignment into a […]
  • NGSS Aligned Neuroscience
    Education
    It can’t be avoided: the standards must be met! While we encourage educators everywhere to break free from the shackles of bureaucratic granularity in education… we also admit that education standards perform a necessary function. There are educational and developmental milestones that all students should achieve, and it is the goal of the standards to […]
  • Meet MS-LS1-8 Easy with Hands-On Neuroscience
    Education
    The Dreaded MS-LS1-8 Use the standards as an opportunity to inspire your students with Hands-On Neuroscience! Heads up: This one’s for our Middle School Science teachers working to meet NGSS. It’s also for anyone interested in how Neuroscience labs can be used to meet your own curriculum standards! MS-LS1-8 is a reportedly tough standard to address. It […]
  • Hopped The Pond for FENS 2018
    Education
    The Open Hardware Symposium and our Exhibit Generated Excitement, Smiles, and Inspiration Every year, Backyard Brains reaches farther and farther with our quest to spread DIY neuroscience, and this year, we hopped the pond to the largest neuroscience conference in Europe! Our experiments were a hit at the Forum of European Neuroscience (FENS) held in Berlin, […]
  • Why are Neuroscientists Interested in... plants?
    Education
    But Why Plants? With the Introduction of the The Plant SpikerBox, you can, for the first time ever, explore plant behavior and electrophysiology at home or in the classroom. But wait…. Plants? Why are neuroscientists interested in… plants…? When we work with young students, we often begin by asking them “What has a brain?” You get your […]
  • Tim Marzullo Talks Human-Human-Interface, BYB History on
    Biz
    Recently, our very own Tim Marzullo spoke with the Ladan Jiracek, host and creator of the “Neural Implant Podcast.” This podcast describes its purpose as “bringing together the field of neuroprosthetics, brain-machine interfaces, and brain implants through an understandable conversation on the current topics and breakthroughs in the fields.” The Podcast runs just under an […]
  • Go Backstage TED 2017: Plant-Plant-Communication!
    TED
    • May 10, 2017
    • by Greg
    On April 24, the co-founder of Backyard Brains, Greg Gage, returned to the TED stage to give another intriguing talk that included live scientific experiments: this time, he showed that plants, like animals, can use electrical signals to make rapid movements. If you missed it, you can see the TED talk here! Now, take a […]