In a lab rack that looks more like a high-end audio system than a server, clusters of human brain cells are quietly learning to process information. Electrodes feed them signals, nutrients keep them ...

Scientists have been experimenting with brain-to-brain interfaces for years. Miguel Nicolelis, a neurobiologist at Duke University Medical Center, in particular, has been making strides with his ...

Imagine a world where the metallic innards of our computers are replaced by organic materials. Recent research has shown that this could be a reality, with mushrooms serving as an alternative to metal ...

We invariably imagine electronic devices to be made from silicon chips, with which computers store and process information as binary digits (zeros and ones) represented by tiny electrical charges. But ...

Credit: Wikipedia Some of us may swear our computers have a personality, but we know they’re not really alive. But a future generation of computing devices may, in fact, have organic components. The ...

Researchers at Duke University previously proposed the idea of 'Brainets'. These are brain networks which are formed by multiple animal brains exchanging information in real-time via brain-to-brain ...

The advent of artificial intelligence, machine learning and the internet of things is expected to change modern electronics and bring forth the fourth Industrial Revolution. The pressing question for ...

In 2011, researchers in Belgium created a plastic microprocessor by printing 4,000 plastic transistors on flexible plastic foil. It's hardly a Core i7 – it can run one program consisting of 16 ...

The advent of faster computers, the ability to tap into unlimited numbers of those computers via the Internet, and more sophisticated data analysis software have led to improved high-throughput ...