Articles by Technology Review from June 2014

With the invention of optogenetics and other technologies, researchers can investigate the source of emotions, memory, and consciousness for the first time.The hypothalamus is a small structure deep i...

Drugs for psychiatric illnesses arent very effective. But new research is offering renewed hope for better medicines.At Novartiss research lab in Cambridge, Massachusetts, a large incubator-like piece...

Fundamental discoveries about the nature of memory could lead to new treatments for post-traumatic stress disorder, addiction, and anxiety.When it comes to the study of memory, we might be living in s...

How does the brain speak to itself?In What Is Life? (1944), one of the fundamental questions the physicist Erwin Schrdinger posed was whether there was some sort of hereditary code-script embedded in ...

With the invention of optogenetics and other technologies, researchers can investigate the source of emotions, memory, and consciousness for the first time.What might be called the make love, not war ...

Gabriel Kreimans single-neuron measurements of unconscious decision-making may not topple Descartes, but they could someday point to ways we can learn to control ourselves.It was an expedition seeking...

A new kind of search engine will make it possible to search inside the apps on your phone.Once upon a time there was the Web, a vast universe of information and services that were tangled together by ...

How a California father made an end run around medicine to decode his sons DNA.An infant born last week in California appears to be the first healthy person ever born with his entire genetic makeup de...

U.N. negotiations are going nowhere, and greenhouse-gas emissions are soaring. Its time to move on.In 2007, just before he accepted the Nobel Prize on behalf of the U.N.s Intergovernmental Panel on C...

Microsoft is investing in quantum physics research that could lead to a whole new kind of computer.Microsoft is making a significant investment in creating a practical version of the basic component n...

If a device could capture every moment in life for your easy recall later, would you want it to? There are plenty of things Id rather forget.I always knew I was short, but it wasnt until recently th...

If a device could capture every moment in life for your easy recall later, would you want it to? There are plenty of things Id rather forget.I always knew I was short, but it wasnt until recently th...

Huge differences in renewable energy and natural gas potential influenced the EPAs proposed carbon regulations.Last week the EPA released a plan to significantly reduce U.S. carbon dioxide emissions o...

Computer programmers wont stop making dangerous errors on their own. Its time they adopted an idea that makes the physical world safer....

Headphones that make sounds seem to come from specific points in space could be the perfect counterpoint to virtual reality goggles.Just as a new generation of virtual reality goggles for video games ...

Some of the machines acquired recently by Google represent a giant leap forward for robot-kind....

The EPAs emissions targets will accelerate the use of natural gas in states that have resisted alternatives to coal.The Obama administration took its most forceful step yet on climate change with an E...