Science News
Brain-Like Chip May Solve Computers' Big Problem: Energy
The future of computing may depend on embracing the chaos that defines human thinking. 11.06.2009
How to See Inside a Brain in Motion
A new mobile EEG system now lets researchers probe the brain function while people move around naturally. 06.05.2009
The Pentagon’s Beetle Borgs
Researchers create what may be the perfect scout: a bug controlled remotely through a chip implanted in its optic lobes and flight muscles. 04.30.2009
Are Smart Drugs the Answer to Bad Moods—and a Bad Economy?
Today’s mind-altering chemicals can improve your memory, alertness, and mood. Just wait until you see what tomorrow’s crop can do. 04.02.2009
The Pugnacious Paper That Aims to Turn Neuroscience on Its Head
fMRI has revolutionized our understanding of the brain. But some researchers say it's actually a big misunderstanding. 03.18.2009
What Makes You Uniquely "You"?
Nobel laureate Gerald Edelman says your brain is one-of-a-kind in the history of the universe. 01.16.2009
How Google Is Making Us Smarter
Humans are "natural-born cyborgs," and the Internet is our giant "extended mind." 01.15.2009
Skipping the Problem Is a Jump Towards Curing Paralysis
Researchers discover a way to re-route brain signals to a paralyzed limb. 01.10.2009
The Rise of the Cyborgs
Melding humans and machines to help the paralyzed walk, the mute speak, and the near-dead return to life 09.26.2008
When Computers Meld With Our Minds
Futurist Vernor Vinge predicts a world of techno-human superbeings. 07.25.2008
How To Excuse Yourself from Your Body
Once you see—and feel—a virtual self, your mind can move into a mannequin. 12.10.2007
NASA's 6 Best Earth-Based Research Projects
Ultrafast scramjets, mach-10 wind tunnels, cockpit displays that see through clouds... 10.17.2007
The Most Important Future Military Technologies
Super lasers, binoculars that read minds, manipulating the "human terrain"... 10.04.2007
How to Sleep 4 Hours per Night
Zapping your brain with an electromagnet could do the trick. 07.24.2007
The Next Jump in Artificial Intelligence
Computer program is unbeatable at checkers. 07.19.2007
This is Your Brain on Video Games
Gaming sharpens thinking, social skills, and perception. 07.09.2007
Jaron’s World: Computer Evolution
Most software stinks. It should learn from robots and bacteria. 06.27.2007
Jaron’s World: Virtual Horizon
VR in the real world may soon surpass the famous glove from Minority Report. 05.11.2007
Human Think, Robot Do
Controlling a robot with an electrode-studded swim cap 05.04.2007
Mind Control
A paralyzed man can operate a computer mouse and even a prosthetic hand using a brain implant. 04.17.2007
Attention Training
A video game, of all things, can improve young children's attention spans. 03.02.2007
Jaron's World: Morphing Messages
Describing ideas so subtle they are literally beyond words. 01.10.2007
Brain in a Dish
This is not your average petri dish: minibrains grown in vitro. 11.01.2006
Think Tank
Top scientists pinpoint the critical developments of the last 25 years and predict wonders yet to come 05.01.2005
Neuroscience: John Donoghue
11.25.2004
The Bionic Connection
Are we already a lot closer to a mind-machine interface than we ever guessed? 11.01.2002
Follow Up:
08.01.2002
Smart Food for Robots
02.01.2001
Freeing Minds with EEGs
08.01.2000
The Bionic Rat
A rat brain directs a robotic arm. 11.01.1999
DISCOVER Roundtable-The Startling Future of Computers
Connect to the Internet through a tiny telephone implanted in your head? 11.01.1999
The Tenth Annual DISCOVER Awards for Technological Innovation
WINNER Neural Signals and Emory University's Neurotrophic Implant forCommunicationInnovator: Philip Kennedy 07.01.1999
Mind Over Matter
02.01.1999
