Building a remote control for your brain
What if you didn’t need surgery to implant a pacemaker on a faulty heart? What if you could control your blood sugar levels without an injection of insulin, or mitigate the onset of a seizure without even pushing a button?
I and a team of scientists in...
How do you know you’re not living in a computer simulation?
Consider this: right now, you are not where you think you are. In fact, you happen to be the subject of a science experiment being conducted by an evil genius.
Your brain has been expertly removed from your body and is being kept...
This photograph (magnetic resonance image) is of a brain tumour.
This is how the radiologist describes it:
I noticed the tumour this morning, whilst looking at the scan on my pc, returned from my oncologist just now- who confirmed.
I had two tumours removed in In May last year ...
Creating a "superbrain" of connected minds, scientists on Thursday said they had enabled a rat to help a fellow rodent while the animals were a continent apart but connected through brain electrodes.
With electrodes imbedded in its cortex, a rat in a research institute in Natal, Brazil sent...