Machine learning can process data that is imperceptible to humans from which it produces results we would expect. These inconceivable patterns (they might look like old-school TV static to us) are ...

Large wakes of ethical outcries tend to follow new applications of genetic research. Among the many concerns are parents deciding how to engineer their undeveloped child into the “perfect” human being ...

Artificial Intelligence continues to fill the media headlines while scientists and engineers rapidly expand its capabilities and applications. With such explosive growth in the field, there is a great ...

Back in the day, families in general seemed to do most of the work needed for themselves by themselves, since this was really required if a family was to simply survive the day. Over the past 100 ...

Last year, Popular Mechanics featured a great “TOP SEVEN” List of most influential amateur researchers today. The recommendations were provided by Dr. Shawn Carlson, a former Scientific American ...

Thanks to the tip from Zack Lynch that a new program from the MIT Sloan School of Management is researching the neurotechnology industry by trying to understand why innovations and business are ...

Recently, one of our brave Endeavour astronauts inadvertently let a tool bag slip through her fingers (it wasn’t properly attached initially and so caught her unexpectedly). The bag was assumed to be ...

Dr. John Donoghue, Professor of Neuroscience at Brown University, presented an informative, hour-long presentation at the National Institute of Health this past April covering his group’s important ...

This posting is certainly a diversion from our typical reviews, but this author is always listing to music (mostly jazz) in the background while reading and writing about neurotechnology. So, in a ...

The Wilderness Institute at the University of Montana features a Citizen Science program that is a wonderful opportunity for our amateur research friends up north to explore their local natural ...

Powerful new science and technological advances are a hallmark of the human species. We have been watching and interacting as new advancements happen in real-time for decades. One of the most ...

This article from the Washington Post summarizes a few of the current opinions in consciousness studies. Most philosophers and scientists today firmly believe that a little controller sitting ...