Will We Ever Be Able to Upload a Mind to a New Body?
In Altered Carbon, the body no longer matters. As one character quipped: “You shed it like a snake sheds its skin.”…
Transparent, Glow-in-the-Dark Mice Are a Scientist's Wet Dream (Warning: Graphic)
Generally, if scientists want to see how a living thing functions in high resolution, they need to slice it into tiny…
Would it be evil to build a functional brain inside a computer?
There’s been a lot of talk recently about using supercomputers to simulate the human brain. But as scientists get…
A fascinating new way to visualize your brain's connections
It looks like something someone created with a spirograph, but it's called a connectogram, and it's increasingly being…