Electric currents can help lateral thinking and cognitive flexibility Paul Mccartney famously took the melody for "Yesterday" from a dream, while Thomas Edison argued that his best ideas came from hard work. Others have looked to coffee, drugs or love. But what if creativity could be turned on with a flick of a switch? Elisabeth Hertenstein at the University of Freiburg, Germany, and her colleag..
A better way to edit DNA and a Russian scientist announces plans to make more designer babies As far as experts are concerned, the technology of gene editing is nowhere near ready to be used to create gene-edited babies. This, of course, is separate from the question of whether it is morally right to do so. Nevertheless, around the world, would-be baby tinkerers have failed to get the memo. This..
Where no neural network has gone before Much of the information that is beamed back from space is unless. Pictures taken by satellites orbiting the Earth take days to download, only to show lots of cloud obscuring the area of interest. The subject matter may also be surrounded by irrelevant information. All this uses up a lot of valuable bandwidth. Processing data in space, before transmission, ..