Last year, Popular Mechanics featured a great “TOP SEVEN” List of most influential amateur researchers today. The recommendations were provided by Dr. Shawn Carlson, a former Scientific American ...

This article from the Washington Post summarizes a few of the current opinions in consciousness studies. Most philosophers and scientists today firmly believe that a little controller sitting ...

Powerful new science and technological advances are a hallmark of the human species. We have been watching and interacting as new advancements happen in real-time for decades. One of the most ...

Your brain is absolutely remarkable. Because of the unique and complex method in which neurons organize themselves to keep your body alive and allow it to interact with the environment, a young girl ...

Artificial Intelligence continues to fill the media headlines while scientists and engineers rapidly expand its capabilities and applications. With such explosive growth in the field, there is a great ...

Much of the predicted future of neurotechnology is grounded in the continuing success and development of nanotechnology. This field is broad, for sure, and is even a primary target of the US Federal ...

This posting is certainly a diversion from our typical reviews, but this author is always listing to music (mostly jazz) in the background while reading and writing about neurotechnology. So, in a ...

Neuron News has taken an obnoxiously long vacation from publishing our reviews and commentaries on current developments in neurotechnologies. This is rather unfortunate because five years to the day ...

In 1994, Jeff Hawkins invented a slick little device called a PalmPilot, and started the company Palm Computing. Due to reasons we won’t discuss here, Jim sprouted off of Palm to found Handspring, now ...

Recently, one of our brave Endeavour astronauts inadvertently let a tool bag slip through her fingers (it wasn’t properly attached initially and so caught her unexpectedly). The bag was assumed to be ...

Many of you who involve yourself in citizen science projects, or personal amateur research might dream of designing dedicated laboratory spaces in ones’ own home or garage. Sort of like the “man cave” ...

Sticking sharp, pointy metal needles into your brain is never an idea for a good time (image, deep brain stimulation). Future successful developments in neurotechnology, however, will be dependent on ...