Category: TRENDS IN HI-TECH SCIENCE – Jan 9 2024

Technicians at Australia’s International Centre for Neuromorphic Systems are putting the finishing touches on DeepSouth, the first supercomputer engineered to mimic an entire, functioning human brain. They expect to be ready to turn it on in April.

After recording animals’ brain activity as they died, researchers at the Paris Brain Institute were able, for the first time, to describe in detail the sequence of events that ends the brain’s life.

Depression afflicts 300 million people worldwide and almost 20 million in the U.S., according to the World Health Organization. The worst cases resist counseling and drug therapy, often leading to suicide.