A Spectra Physics Model A supermarket scanner—one of the first ten ever produced. A laser within the unit projects a beam onto a mirror that redirects it through the glass plate on the top. Cade ...

Sugar alone can appear in many forms, including glucose, fructose, sucrose, dextrose, maltose, and other terms ending in “-ose”. Additives, preservatives, colourants, and stabilisers can be even ...

Epilepsy isn't always easy to diagnose. Seizures often don't occur during routine brain-wave recordings (EEGs), leaving doctors without the direct observation they need to make a clear diagnosis.

The R7 consistently detects speed-measuring devices at enough distance to slow down. The false-alert filtering is on par with more expensive radar detectors, and voice announcements make it easy to ...

Scanners didn’t just put Cronenberg on the map. It marked a shift in his perspective on body horror, which became more distinctly cerebral over the years (as evidenced by the post-human themes in ...

After poring over recordings from sperm whales in the Caribbean, UC Berkeley linguist Gasper Begus had an unlikely breakthrough. According to a new study from Begus and his colleagues with Project ...

This special report examines the rise of 'white-collar terrorism,' focusing on a busted Jaish-e-Mohammad module involving highly educated professionals, including doctors. The investigation, spanning ...

Researchers in Shanghai have reported in a study, recently published in Science Advances, that they've successfully decoded Mandarin Chinese language in real time with the help of a brain-computer ...

Most experimental brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) that have been used for synthesizing human speech have been implanted in the areas of the brain that translate the intention to speak into the muscle ...

We all talk to ourselves in our heads. It could be a pep talk heading into a wedding speech or chaotic family reunion or motivating yourself to quit procrastinating. This inner speech also hides ...

A participant is using the inner speech neuroprosthesis. The text above is the cued sentence, and the text below is what's being decoded in real-time as she imagines speaking the sentence. Scientists ...