Let me take you back to my first day of college. It was a terrible day! As a freshman, at the local pub, I tried to mingle but knew no one and so felt completely out of place. My pupils dilated, my ...

In 2017, Facebook announced that it wanted to create a headband that would let people type at a speed of 100 words per minute, just by thinking. Now, a little over two years later, the social-media ...

Scientists are grappling with the ethical implications of new technology that aims to listen to and perhaps change brain activity, Laura Sanders reported in “Inside your head” (SN: 2/13/21, p. 24).

Several people volunteer to take part in a scientific study of memory, unaware that it’s part of a secret plot to create the title device. Joy N. Houck Jr. directed this 1977 sci-fi thriller. The ...

Your brain is a bustling hub of electrical activity. This is due to the fact that the cells in your brain, called neurons, use electricity to communicate with each other. When a group of neurons sends ...