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AI-generated “brain rot” videos are popping up all over the internet and getting a lot of attention. Currently gaining traction among younger users, these clips feature wild characters, like a shark wearing sneakers and a ballerina with a cappuccino for a head. One startup driving this trend is OpenArt, founded by two former Google employees in 2022. It touts around …

Brain fog is that mentally fuzzy feeling that makes it difficult to think clearly. One study found it may affect nearly 30% of people.  RDs say eating leafy greens, berries, fatty fish, mushrooms and nuts may offer protection. If you’ve ever walked into a room and forgotten why you entered, or spent hours searching for that one thing that you …

Tesla Stock Is Down on Dojo Brain Drain. Don’t Panic.  Barron’s Tesla Disbands Dojo Supercomputer Team, Unwinding Key AI Effort  Yahoo Finance Why Tesla’s latest move could be a boon for Nvidia, AMD  CNBC Tesla to streamline its AI chip design work, Musk says  Reuters Tesla’s ‘Dojo’ Supercomputer For FSD Is Dead  InsideEVs Source link

Image credits: Farhad Ibrahimzade. A greasy takeaway may seem like an innocent Friday night indulgence. But our recent research suggests even a single high-fat meal could impair blood flow to the brain, potentially increasing the risk of stroke and dementia. Dietary fat is an important part of our diet. It provides us with a concentrated source of energy, transports vitamins …

The human brain shrinks as it ages, affecting the ability to remember — it’s part of life. Yet there are a lucky few, called “SuperAgers,” who possess a brain that fights back. For these people, memories stay as sharp as they were 30 or more years in the past. Carol Siegler, who lives in the Chicago suburb of Palatine, is …

A greasy takeaway may seem like an innocent Friday night indulgence. But our recent research suggests even a single high-fat meal could impair blood flow to the brain, potentially increasing the risk of stroke and dementia. Dietary fat is an important part of our diet. It provides us with a concentrated source of energy, transports vitamins and when stored in …

Can delaying a disease as monstrous as Alzheimer’s be as simple as walking and eating nutritious foods? To some degree, yes. Wundervisuals / Getty Images A June 2025 study in Molecular Neurodegeneration assessed this topic and concluded that “up to 45% of dementia risk can be attributed to modifiable risk factors,” namely exercise and diet. What happens, the study explained, …

In a breakthrough that reimagines the way the gut and brain communicate, researchers have uncovered what they call a “neurobiotic sense,” a newly identified system that lets the brain respond in real time to signals from microbes living in our gut. The new research, led by Duke University School of Medicine neuroscientists Diego Bohórquez, PhD, and M. Maya Kaelberer, PhD, …

Human tissue samples De-identified human specimens were collected from the Autopsy Service in the Department of Pathology at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) (Supplementary Table 2) with previous patient consent in strict observance of the legal and institutional ethical regulations. Autopsy consents and all protocols for human prenatal brain tissue procurement were approved by the Human Gamete, Embryo and …

These authors contributed equally: Takahiro Masuda, Klaus-Peter Knobeloch, Marco Prinz Institute of Neuropathology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany Maximilian Frosch, Takashi Shimizu, Emile Wogram, Lukas Amann, Maximilian Fliegauf, Marius Schwabenland, Chintan Chhatbar, Thomas Blank, Klaus-Peter Knobeloch & Marco Prinz Center for Mass Spectrometry and Optical Spectroscopy (CeMOS), Mannheim University of Applied Sciences, Mannheim, Germany Lars Gruber & Carsten Hopf Medical Faculty, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany Lars Gruber & Carsten Hopf Institute …