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• Elon Musk's Neuralink is building tech to control computers with your mind

  Elon Musk's ambitious brain-computer interface company, Neuralink, finally told us today what it's been up to. It's building ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• CRISPR is less like molecular scissors and more like molecular malware

  Last week I read an article about CRISPR, the latest tool scientists are using to edit DNA. It was a great piece – well researched, beautifully written, factually accurate. It covered some of the amazing projects scientist are working on using CRISPR, like bringing animals back ...

  • The Conversation

• Here's how algorithms can protect us against deepfakes

  Deepfake videos are hard for untrained eyes to detect because they can be quite realistic. Whether used as personal weapons of revenge, to manipulate financial markets or to destabilize international relations, videos depicting people doing and saying things they never did or said ...

  • The Conversation

• We can thank the Apollo moon missions for these widely used technologies

  NASA’s Apollo programme was one of the most challenging technological achievements in the 20th century. Beyond the space race and exploration, it contributed to several inventions and innovations that are still having an impact on our lives. But at the same time, there are several ...

  • The Conversation

• The Pentagon's new heartbeat detection laser could save us from our surveillance horror

  The Pentagon last week unveiled a long-range laser device capable of detecting a person's unique heart-signature. It was designed to thwart terrorism, but could lead to the Holy Grail of civilian surveillance: an ethical, non-invasive method of conducting biometric identification ...

  • Tristan Greene

• A public DNA database led to a murder conviction, but innocent people may pay the price

  To date, public DNA databases have been used to identify more than 40 rape and murder suspects, some from cases dating back ...

  • Bryan Clark

• Researchers invent multiplayer Tetris game controlled by brainwaves

  A team of scientists from the University of Washington and Carnegie Mellon University have developed a method by which three people can play a Tetris-like multiplayer decision-making game together using only their minds. Researchers, Linxing Jiang, Andrea Stocco, Darby Losey, Justin ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Waterfall illusion: the science behind why still objects sometime appear to move

  Humans are fascinated by visual illusions, which occur when there is a mismatch between the pattern of light that falls on the retina, and what we perceive. Before books, films, and the internet allowed illusions to be shared widely, people were captivated by illusions in nature. ...

  • The Conversation

• Scientists teleported quantum data into the flawed heart of a diamond

  A team of scientists from Yokohama National University recently became the first researchers to teleport a photon into the ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Here’s how billionaires are planning their immortality

  While we all know that billionaires control a substantial amount of the world’s wealth – in fact, current projections ...

  • ABC Finance

• Neuroscientists scanned radicals' brains to determine what makes them turn violent

  The young man sitting in the waiting room of our neuroimaging facility wearing skinny jeans and trainers looked like a typical ...

  • The Conversation

• The first AI capable of simulating the universe works so well it's scary

  A team of researchers recently pioneered the world's first AI universe simulator. It's fast; it's accurate; and its creators ...

  • Tristan Greene