Laser-Controlled Humans Closer to Reality
Flashes of light may one day be used to control the human brain, and that day just got a lot closer. Using lasers, researchers at the MIT Media Lab were able to activate a specific set of neurons in a ...
View ArticleCool: New Exoplanet Is Near Habitable Zone
Extrasolar planet hunters are excited about a not-so-hot discovery. For the first time, they’ve found a relatively cool extrasolar planet that they can study in detail. The finding is a milestone, says...
View ArticleGiant, Tilted Exoplanets Like It Hot
Giant planets with wonky orbits mostly circle blistering-hot stars, two new studies find. This pattern could explain why some “hot Jupiters” — planets from a third to 12 times the mass of Jupiter that...
View ArticlePhysicists Dream Up the Antilaser
Fifty years after physicists invented the laser, ushering in everything from supermarket scanners to music CDs, scientists have conceived its opposite — the “antilaser.” Unlike its more popular cousin,...
View ArticleRobot-Finger Spinoff Can Model Microscopic Details in 3-D
Researchers from MIT have created a handheld device called GelSight that provides ultrahigh-resolution 3-D scans of microscopic surface structure.
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