Smart Dust Could Spy On Your Brain
Intelligent dust particles embedded in the brain could form an entirely new form of brain-machine interface, say engineers The real time monitoring of brain function has [...]
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Plant Roots Work as Bio-Wires in Self-Growing Circuits
Computer scientist Andrew Adamatzky of the University of West England did a series of tests with four-day-old lettuce seedlings. To create bio-wires, he bridged two [...]
Brain Implant Lets One Monkey Control Another
In work inspired partly by the movie “Avatar,” one monkey could control the body of another monkey using thought alone by connecting the brain of the [...]
A New Map of the Brain: Top/Bottom
Who hasn’t heard that people are either left-brained or right-brained—either analytical and logical or artistic and intuitive, based on the relative [...]