
How Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel's discovery of light-gated ion channels became optogenetics, the tool neuroscientists use to switch individual neurons on and off with light. For anyone curious about the science behind October 2026's Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

How losing sleep changes the way the brain weighs risk, files away memories and catches its own mistakes. Written for anyone curious about the science behind a genuinely bad night's sleep.

A look at a September 2026 brain-computer interface that lets a paralyzed person speak and gesture through a single implant. Built for anyone curious about how far brain-reading technology has come.