Exercise your brain,” experts advise people hoping to stave off dementia. But how? Stretching your brain might be the better description. Do a ...

NYT Connections March 11 puzzle features cones, slang for stealing, and tricky pronoun homophones. See today’s hints and full answers here.

Google has been tinkering with porting its Play Games platform to Windows for several years, but it started getting serious about it last year. Now, with the 2026 Game Developer Conference underway, ...

Researchers at Melbourne start-up Cortical Labs have taught their "biological computer" made from living human brain cells to play Doom. They say it brings biological computers a step closer to ...

A clump of human brain cells can play the classic computer game Doom. Researchers at a Melbourne start-up Cortical Labs have taught their "biological computer" made from living human brain cells to ...

Cortical Labs is building two data centres that will house its neuron-filled chips. The technology is still in the very early ...

Few games have been meme-ified quite like Doom, and in the past, many have capitalized on the joke. Scientists have gotten E.

Forget playing Doom on a calculator. Now you can play it with a clump of brain cells--no brainstem necessary.

In a groundbreaking experiment, researchers have achieved a remarkable feat that blurs the lines between biology and technology. Cortical Labs has cultivated 800K brain cells in a petri dish, ...

In films like The Matrix and Ex Machina, the boundary between biological intelligence and machines dissolves. Human minds are ...

NYT Wordle delivers a fresh five-letter puzzle every day. The game pushes players to test vocabulary skills, logical thin ...

It's worth knowing whether you're just playing a game you like — or maybe also improving your brain chemistry.