Much cheaper and easier to operate than the best magnetometers available today Two years ago, researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in the U.S. deve... Read more
British scientists are claiming to have made a major breakthrough after creating brain tissue from human skin. The researchers have for the first time generated crucial types of human... Read more
Plasticity is believed to be one of the key factors that allows us to learn The human brain contains approximately 100 billion neurons, and each one of those communicates with many ot... Read more
Usually, the last things that most people want to do with a digital memory device are to drop it on a hard surface, bend it, or put it underwater. A new prototype developed by researchers at... Read more
Image via Wikipedia NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF Our political system sometimes produces such skewed results that it’s difficult not to blame bloviating politicians. But maybe the deeper problem lies... Read more
Using the same technology that allowed them to accurately detect the brain signals controlling arm movements that we looked at last year, researchers at the University of Utah have gone one... Read more
Researchers from Japan and the Michigan Technological University have succeeded in building a molecular computer that, more than any previous project of its kind, can replicate the inner mec... Read more
Image via Wikipedia Sooner than you think — and the race has lately caused a ‘catfight’ When physicists puzzle out the workings of some new part of nature, that knowledge c... Read more
The team at HP Labs responsible for building the world’s first memristor in 2008 have discovered their creation has more capabilities than was previously thought. In addition to retaining a... Read more
Image via Wikipedia The human brain is poorly equipped for comprehending massive quantities. This makes sense from an evolutionary perspective; large numbers are relatively new features of o... Read more