In the early days of computing, hardware and software took little account of users. The user interface consisted of punch cards for input and folded paper for output. I remember wishing I could get ...

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Clas Weber receives funding from the Australian Research Council. Imagine brain scanning technology improves greatly in the coming decades, to the point that we can observe how each individual neuron ...

BRYAN JOHNSON wants to live for ever. The American businessman pops a hundred pills a day, never eats after 11am, and obsessively monitors dozens of his body’s “biomarkers”. The goal, as he will tell ...

Scientists found that embryonic skin cells “whisper” through faint mechanical tugs, using the same force-sensing proteins that make our ears ultrasensitive. By syncing these micro-movements, the cells ...