Scanner helmet lets brain patients move around. (And look like warriors from Krull.)
The Guardian has a game-changing invention for neurologists and anyone who needs a brain-scan done – a wearable helmet that lets you walk around – […]
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Electrical brain stimulation can boost your memory. For a day.
Science News has more on how a zap of electric current, placed just so, can increase your ability to make and maintain new memories: The […]
Science Art: Field Rheostats, 1907
Click to embiggen Not “field” as in “field recording,” but “field” as in “magnetic field.” These are from a chapter on direct-current dynamos in E. […]
Science Art: The Edison Multipolar Dynamo, 1894
Click to embiggen A big electric machine, as pictured in The United States of America. A study of the American Commonwealth, its natural resources, people, […]
How to charge an electric car on the road.
Science Daily reports on a hurdle being cleared on the way to wirelessly charging a moving electric vehicle: If electric cars could recharge while driving […]
Chernobyl goes solar.
Popular Mechanics celebrates a plan to turn the nuclear disaster zone into a 1-gigawatt solar farm: The high levels of radiation make the zone unsuitable […]
Making batteries from seafood leftovers.
Hakai magazine explains how we can turn crab and lobster shells into batteries, plastics and (maybe) scaffolds for growing new organs: [Mark] MacLachlan [of the […]
Microbes that feed on electricity
Quanta Magazine introduces us to little creatures that use electricity as food: The electricity-eating microbes that the researchers were hunting for belong to a larger […]
Transcranial magnetic stimulation isn’t doing what we thought.
Science magazine has some interesting – and rather weird – findings about the new “brain-zapping” technology that uses magnets to affect brain states. Apparently, as […]
Solar cells that generate power from *rain*, too.
Science Daily has our bases covered with the invention of photoelectric cells that create power from sunlight, and the motion of falling rain: For the […]
Electric doping (drug-free!) boosts ski performance.
Nature reports on how tDCS – zapping the brain with low-voltage electricity – can help athletes boost their performance: The USSA [(US Ski and Snowboard […]
We’ve got a battery for your home. Made from organic dye and food additives.
Science Daily looks closely at an affordable, efficient, non-toxic battery that runs your home smoothly from intermittent power sources: The mismatch between the availability of […]
Tapping the power of DNA electronics: recharge the battery by touching it.
Science Daily introduces a new way to recharge your battery – take this flexible, biodegradable device and power it up by touching it: Many people […]
Using tDCS – mild electric jolts to stimulate your brain – actually hurts your IQ score.
Science Daily reports on University of North Carolina research that shows transcranial stimulation, the fascinating new tech that uses mild DC current to “switch on” […]
The ethics of altering your children’s brains.
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience is asking the tough questions about what… and when… we should be doing to kids’ brains with electromagnetism: As the intervention […]