Oxford University researchers are currently testing the device, which captures images and puts them on transparent LED displays, on people who retain some ability to perceive light and motion.
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Newly published in PLoS Computational Biology is a study describing new technology that safely delivers controlled anesthesia without requiring consistent human monitoring.
It’s the first European country to allow parents to specify “X,” giving them time to decide whether to have their child undergo sex-reassignment surgery. Some say the new law doesn’t go far enough to address issues faced by intersex adults.
Gardiner’s life-long immersion in Bach’s music—as performer and conductor, rather than as academic analyst—qualifies him perhaps better than anyone else alive today to recreate what it was to be the living, breathing, human Bach.
Test subjects were asked to rate paintings before and after receiving a mild amount of current in a portion of their brain. Paintings that depicted realistic scenes earned higher ratings after the zap.
Dutch design school graduate Alejo Bernal created a toy car that can be driven using a commercially-available EEG headset. The amount of concentration required to move it could provide exercise for those with attention deficit disorders.
A new report warns that a quarter of the world’s food crops are being grown in areas that are already experiencing high levels of water stress. Increases in drought conditions and population size could make the situation worse.
Science gets things right and it takes a long time and it takes a lot of chatter to get there.
I don’t think we’ve conceptualized yet well enough how the brain gets its job done to abstract all of that activity in our brain into meaningful units to which we can then think about how to move those around to build a brain.
Buy from a double A rated insurance company, a lifetime annuity, that will pay you for as long as you live.
No wonder we only have a couple of kids, rather than 10 or 12.
Someone is always getting killed. Someone is always getting assassinated. But there are also good things that happen in Afghanistan.
Most families nowadays have no alternative but to allow their women, their daughters, wives and so forth to go out to the workforce.
Businesses are reaching the limits of what they can squeeze out of a downsized workforce.
Complexity theory is about adaptive systems that teeter on the edge of chaos.
Niall Ferguson: going on a world tour and seeing which systems do the best job seems like a pretty good starting place to me.
One of the markers of a fast growing company is you constantly have to reevaluate everything.
New research suggests that the “automaton-like” nature of the typical immersive video game avatar can desensitize players to their own pain and that of others, regardless of the level of violence in the game.
The freedom to run your own company and be able to make ethical decisions and stick to your beliefs and stick to your values is very precious and easily lost.
You need to view business growth as a journey and not a destination, and that mindset if very helpful.
The six people who are selected to participate in the Mars Society’s project will spend an entire year at a station located 900 miles from the North Pole.
Anousheh Ansari, the first female private space explorer, believes that if world leaders experienced what she did, they would come up with very different policies.
It isn’t feasible to think that the potential tripling or even quadrupling of energy demand in the coming years can be met with renewable energy sources.
The very fact that Bach’s music is so profound and so uplifting and the man is clearly not a saint makes it all the more interesting.
The author of The Red Badge of Courage, born on this day in 1871, shares today’s wisdom.
The last solar eclipse of 2013 will take place November 3 and it will be a hybrid solar eclipse, meaning it will start out as an annular eclipse with a “ring of fire” (depicted above) and then become a full solar eclipse.
Dolley Madison was extremely controversial during the years of the Founding Fathers.
We can’t restrict adult reading habits to what is fit for children. We’ll have nothing but Alice in Wonderland and Little Red Riding Hood.
Larry Flynt: We’ve got to start leaving people alone unless they’re violating the law.
What do we know about the biblical character Goliath? “He was tall and maybe he didn’t see so well; even WebMD wouldn’t be so bold as to diagnose with no more than that.”