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  • 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 […]
  • Update: Chilean Internship Plant Conduction Velocity Project Summary y Adiós (Por Ahora)
    Education
    Update: Chilean Internship Plant Conduction Velocity Project Summary y Adiós (Por Ahora)
    • March 27, 2024
    • by Jelena Ciric
    — Written by Carla Contreras Mena — Hello! Carla Contreras Mena from Santiago, Chile, here again. Welcome to the conclusion of my work during my internship with Backyard Brains. Experiment Update In the last few months, I’ve had to study more about plants. Why? Because, In my daily life in the laboratory, I’m not very familiar with the […]
  • New Edition of
    Outreach
    New Edition of "How Your Brain Works" at Brain Awareness Week 2024
    • March 20, 2024
    • by Jelena Ciric
    Schools, museums, libraries, community centers and other public venues in over 75 countries— last week, the entire planet was firing spikes in honor of the brain during Brain Awareness Week 2024! An annual event organized and partly funded by Dana Foundation and International Brain Research Organization (IBRO), it’s the biggest joint scientific outreach in the […]
  • 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 […]
  • Backyard Brains Welcomes Newest Chilean Intern: Conduction Velocity in Different Plants
    Education
    Backyard Brains Welcomes Newest Chilean Intern: Conduction Velocity in Different Plants
    • January 12, 2024
    • by Jelena Ciric
    — Written by Carla Contreras Mena — Hello, I’m Carla Contreras Mena, a student of Biochemistry at the University of Santiago of Chile (which we locally call Usach). I currently work in a Neuroscience Laboratory with professor Dr. Patricio Rojas, where we are investigating the neurophysiological difference of electrical activity in the mouse hippocampus between a […]
  • High Schooler Becomes Educator: Young Fencer's Neuro-Revolution Goes International
    Education
    High Schooler Becomes Educator: Young Fencer's Neuro-Revolution Goes International
    • December 28, 2023
    • by Jelena Ciric
    [Updated February 2024] There’s one thing that beats inspiring kids to take up neuroscience: Watching them not only catch the spark but pass it along! High schooler Supriya Nair is our case in point. Through scientific outreach using our SpikerBox, she has already ignited the interest of hundreds of her peers who got to see and […]
  • Biohybrids to the Rescue: (R)evolution of the Cyborg Cockroach
    BYB Neuroscience News
    Biohybrids to the Rescue: (R)evolution of the Cyborg Cockroach
    • December 16, 2023
    • by Jelena Ciric
    The concept has been around for over a decade: Robotic cockroaches toting Bluetooth-powered backpacks that can make them move where you need them to move. As creators of our own cyborg roach, we’ve also had a say in it. Which makes us all the happier to observe that the idea has caught on and is […]
  • 5 Brain Awareness Week Ideas (Apply Now to Get up to $1,250 in Grants!)
    Outreach
    5 Brain Awareness Week Ideas (Apply Now to Get up to $1,250 in Grants!)
    • September 15, 2023
    • by Jelena Ciric
    Second week of March is always a special time of year for brain buffs. That is when educators from around the world join in for neuroscience outreach in schools and local communities! Money’s always scarce, but your organization doesn’t have to tap into its own funds. If you write up and submit a proposal within the […]
  • Unique ‘Pain Fingerprint’ – New Study Charts Brain’s Varied Responses to Pain
    AI Edited
    Unique ‘Pain Fingerprint’ – New Study Charts Brain’s Varied Responses to Pain
    • September 5, 2023
    • by Jelena Ciric
    “How bad does it hurt?” It’s not for nothing that doctors usually struggle to ascertain our level of pain. It depends not only on how bad we report it to be, but also on the amount of pain we think we feel. But are there reasons behind it that would begin to decipher our (in)ability to […]
  • 2023 Summer US-Serbian Research Fellowship Concludes: New Experiments in the Works!
    Fellowship
    2023 Summer US-Serbian Research Fellowship Concludes: New Experiments in the Works!
    • August 2, 2023
    • by Jelena Ciric
    Over a dozen busy bees, 5 research projects, 4 hot weeks of July, countless data, iterations and coffee cups, one book of experiments to soak it all up and present to the wider audience — and the Backyard Brains 2023 US-Serbian Summer Research Fellowship rounds off. The result will hit the shelves this fall, with […]
  • N170 Detection (Or Why Your Brain Picks Faces Over Rolex Watches)
    Fellowship
    N170 Detection (Or Why Your Brain Picks Faces Over Rolex Watches)
    • July 31, 2023
    • by Jelena Ciric
    — Written by Petar Damjanovic — If I were to show you a photo of a Rolex watch and a face of an unknown person, you’d probably be more interested in the prestigious, shiny object than the random stranger, right? However — and this may come as a surprise — your brain is much more modest […]
  • Body Schema Experiment Wrap-Up: What Happens in Your Muscles During Pinocchio Illusion?
    Fellowship
    Body Schema Experiment Wrap-Up: What Happens in Your Muscles During Pinocchio Illusion?
    • July 30, 2023
    • by Jelena Ciric
    — Written by Milica Manojlovic — Aaaand the results are in! So, just a quick recap – we were hoping to get as much data on the way we process the Pinocchio illusion by measuring different behavioral outcomes as well as the EMG in three timepoints. As far as the behavioral measures are concerned, we questioned participants […]
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