Hollywood pushes a fantasy version of what neuroscience can do in the courtroom. But the field does have real benefits to offer, right now: solid evidence on what would improve prisons.
Puerto Rico’s Cayo Santiago Research Station has been a world-famous site for primate studies since 1938. Now scientists are working to save its staff and rhesus monkey colony after Hurricane Maria.
The animal kingdom is full of lefties and righties, although rarely is the ratio skewed as much as it is in humans. If you’re wondering about your own pet, you can find out with a simple experiment.
Computers today are fast and powerful but they still can’t think like a human when it comes to some tasks we find easy. That’s why tech companies are turning to neuroscience for help.
Inspiration can come when we least expect it.
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We’re used to thinking of our eyes detecting light as the foundation of our visual system. But what’s going on in other cells throughout the body that can detect light, too?
Democracy and good governance require politicians to engage in reasoned debate, informed decision making and measured judgements. This presupposes rationality. Is this always true?
Brain connections determine whether you remember the wind in your hair or who was prime minister.
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Neuroscientists have struggled to explain whether certain types of memory involve distinct parts of the brain. Now a study suggests it’s mainly down to pathways in the brain’s white matter.
This image was produced by the AI algorithm of the neural network ‘Deep Dream Generator’.
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Dire dystopian predictions aside, the real danger of artificial intelligence is not the notorious “AI singularity” but job loss and misuse by malevolent people.
Interview with the scientist Claude Berrou, inventor of the turbocodes that protect the data of the connected objects. Today, he is exploring the neurosciences.