Neuroscience 5 August 2025 - 12 August 2025

Smart Fabrics with Sensors
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Smart Fabrics with Sensors: The Wearable Tech Revolution You Didn’t See Coming

The global smart fabrics market reached $6–8 billion in 2024, with defense accounting for 29% of revenue. Recent products include Google’s touch-sensitive Jacquard jacket, Cornell’s exercise-tracking SeamFit shirt, and Cambridge’s AI sleepwear. The U.S. intelligence community’s SMART ePANTS program received $22 million in 2023. Sports and fitness is the fastest-growing sector, expanding at about 35% annually.
August 15, 2025
Uploading Minds - Whole Brain Emulation - WBE
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Uploading Minds: The Race for Whole Brain Emulation (WBE) and Its Profound Implications

Researchers mapped the full adult fruit fly brain in 2023, charting 139,000 neurons and 54 million synapses. In 2025, the MICrONS project published a 1 mm³ mouse visual cortex map with half a billion synapses among 75,000 neurons. The human brain contains about 86 billion neurons and 100 trillion synapses. The nematode C. elegans connectome, completed in 1986, has 302 neurons.
August 12, 2025
Mind Over Machine: The Astonishing Rise of Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCIs)
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Mind Over Machine: The Astonishing Rise of Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCIs)

In May 2023, a wireless brain-spine interface enabled a paralyzed man to stand, walk, and climb stairs after 12 years, with effects stable for over a year. Since 2004, BCI trials have let paralyzed patients move cursors, control robotic arms, feel touch, and type by thought. Neuralink began human trials in 2023, implanting its device in five patients by mid-2025. Paradromics and UCSF also reported major milestones in 2023.
August 5, 2025