Research Roundup: Six Cool Science Stories We Almost Missed

Computer run on human brain cells learned to play ‘Doom’

A biocomputer powered by lab-grown human brain cells has leveled up from Pong to Doom. While nowhere ready to handle the video game shooter’s most challenging levels, researchers at Cortical Labs in Australia believe their neuronal chip is well on its way to powering a new generation of hybrid organic technologies. “This was a major milestone, because it demonstrated adaptive, real-time goal directed learning,” Brett Kagan, Cortical Labs Chief S…

Research roundup: Six cool science stories we almost missed

Smart underwear measures farts, brain cells play Doom, and AI discovers rules of an ancient game.

Human Brain Cells Learn to Play Doom in Cortical Labs Experiment

Living human neurons were trained to play Doom, extending the long-running engineering benchmark into biological computing.

Scientists Play Doom on Human Brain Cells

The 1993 video game Doom was one of the earliest first-person shooter games and popularized the genre. It has become a hobby among eccentric engineers to play the game on unconventional platforms, such as a chainsaw, a rotary phone, and a cooking pot.It was only a matter of time before the engineers started to go too far. Now, New Scientist reports, the Australian firm Cortical Labs has been able to run the game of Doom on human brain tissue.In …

Human brain cells on microchip successfully play Doom

New Delhi: Back in 2022, the Australian biotechnology company Cortical Labs had demonstrated human brain cells on a microchip playing Pong. They were bombarded with requests to make the same tech run Doom, which has successfully been run on all sorts of devices including a smart refrigerator, a car GPS, a vape pen, a voting machine and a digital piano. Now, Cortical Labs has demonstrated Doom running on its CL1 biological computer, the first com…