Intelligent Machines The “neuropolitics” consultants who hack voters’ brains These experts say they can divine political preferences you can’t express from signals you don’t know you’re producing. by Elizabeth Svoboda 2018-08-16T07:00:00-04:00
Biotechnology Researchers are keeping pig brains alive outside the body If it were tried on a person, it might mean awakening in the ultimate sensory deprivation chamber. by Antonio Regalado 2018-04-25T13:00:00-04:00
Tech Policy MIT severs ties to company promoting fatal brain uploading A startup called Nectome collected $200,000 from people hoping to become digitally immortal through suicide. by Antonio Regalado 2018-04-03T10:46:00-04:00
Biotechnology Inside the Moonshot Effort to Finally Figure Out the Brain AI is only loosely modeled on the brain. So what if you wanted to do it right? You’d need to do what has been impossible until now: map what actually happens in neurons and nerve fibers. by M. Mitchell Waldrop 2017-10-12T00:00:00-04:00
MIT News feature How the Brain Seeks Pleasure and Avoids Pain Neuroscientist Kay Tye tackles the physical basis of emotions and behavior. by Amanda Schaffer 2017-06-27T07:00:00-04:00
Rewriting Life Injectable Wires for Fixing the Brain Novel treatments for neurological diseases might be possible with a flexible mesh that can prod individual brain cells. by Julia Sklar 2016-10-13T00:00:00-04:00
Rewriting Life The Rogue Immune Cells That Wreck the Brain Beth Stevens thinks she has solved a mystery behind brain disorders such as Alzheimer’s and schizophrenia. by Adam Piore 2016-04-04T00:00:00-04:00
Intelligent Machines The Best of the Physics arXiv (week ending March 12, 2016) A selection of the most interesting and intriguing arXiv papers from the past week. by Emerging Technology from the arXiv 2016-03-12T03:30:00-05:00
Rewriting Life The Drug That Killed Michael Jackson Is Helping Us Unravel the Mystery of Consciousness Using the powerful anesthetic propofol, researchers have begun to pick apart how human brain activity gives rise to consciousness. by Mike Orcutt 2016-01-28T14:35:00-05:00
Biotechnology To Study the Brain, a Doctor Puts Himself Under the Knife How one of the inventors of brain-computer interfaces ended up getting one himself. by Adam Piore 2015-11-09T00:00:00-05:00
