to protect the ukrainian people. scientists in australia teach brain cells grown in a lab to play a video game. we find out why. the next stage could open up options such as cyber security management or more economist devices and perhaps could lead to sentience and fully autonomous robots. we met the inventor taking off in his brand new flying car. hello. welcome to the programme. ajury in the us has ordered the conspiracy theorist alexjones to pay $965 million in damages to the families of victims of the sandy hook massacre. mrjones falsely claimed for years that the mass shooting had been staged by the government to try to introduce tighter gun controls. the school principal was among the 26 people killed in the attack in 2012. 0ur correspondent peter bowes has been following the story and joins us now from los angeles. i asked him what prompted this case. this goes back a decade and it is as a result of the families, they say they were harassed and persecuted by followers
scientists in australia have grown brain cells in a lab that have learned how to play a basic video game. they say that their so called mini brain can sense and respond to its environment. the team also claims to have created the first sentient lab grown brain. other experts describe the work as exciting but say that calling the brain cells sentient was going too far. here s our science correspondent, pallab ghosh. these little blobs are clumps of brain cells that have been grown and allowed. researchers connected them to a computer. under the microscope except expect microscope, you consider tiny wires that sand impulses in and out. it loads a basic 19705 in and out. it loads a basic 1970s game called pong in a rectangle on the screen. the lab grown game moves a white line to stop there. getting past. line to stop there. getting ast. ., ., past. right now we have the chance for past. right now we have the chance for drug past. right now we have the chance for drug discovery, i ch