Beginning with a performance at CCB, and continuing with a conference dedicated to the symbiosis between art and science – The scientists behind The Roots of Curiosity, reflect on the outcome of this art-science project.

Your brain has a remarkable ability to learn complex rules and adapt to new situations. Brainflight, a European project in partnership with Champalimaud Foundation (PT), Tekever (PT) Eagle Science (NL) and Technische Universität München (DE), is taking advantage of this learning process to develop a Brain Machine Interface where neural activity can control aircrafts.

CNPers reach out all across ages and all across the Lisbon area.

Video and pictures available from another successful event organised by CNP outreach initiative Ar | Respire connosco.

What are the latest discoveries in neuroscience that can help us understand the brain, consciousness, memory and attention? What practical advice is there on detecting and coping with stress? What is ‘Mindfulness’, why is it important and how does one practice it?

State-of-the-art Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) scanners will establish Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown (CCU) as one of the most advanced preclinical imaging institutions worldwide.

How a side project became a powerful open-source tool.

What does Bonsai, the Japanese art form of carefully shaping miniature trees have to do with scientific research? For Gonçalo Lopes, a graduate student at Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown, Bonsai perfectly captures the essence of his doctoral thesis – “just like the art form, the main aesthetics and challenge of our work involve being able to recreate all the complexities of a living landscape in a very confined space.”

Time is represented by a slow wave of sequential activity across neurons within a specific brain area, say Researchers at Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown, Lisbon

The organisers of the Ar programme of events DançAr were invited to join a group who has been working on a very special project called Dancing with Pk, to celebrate International Dance Day 2015.

Dancing with PK started organising dance classes for Parkinson’s patients in late 2014. To celebrate the 2015 International Day of Dance, the team organised an event at the S. Pedro de Alcântara Convent, in Lisbon.

The European Research Council (ERC) awards Champalimaud Research Director Zachary Mainen an Advanced Grant for the sum of 2.5 M Euros.

The newly awarded research grant is the second consecutive ERC advanced grant awarded to Dr. Mainen, representing the first time a researcher working in Portugal receives this award two successive times.

This grant will be dedicated to study how serotonin influences the way we perceive the world and consequently our behaviour.

What are the challenges facing private foundations to promote research? How does the interaction between private foundations and public bodies work to advance science? High-level representatives from both private and public sectors came together to discuss these and other topics, last Wednesday, May 20th.