A recent meta-analysis found that undergraduates’ IQs have steadily fallen from roughly 119 in 1939 to a mean of 102 in 2022, just slightly above the population average of 100. The decline in students’ IQ is a necessary consequence of…
O’Connell and Adams specialize in the complex ways that Alzheimer’s effects how people speak. Using AI, their mathematical model analyzes 15 million data points every minute, focusing on certain features of speech such as pitch, pauses and elongation of words.…
MIT researchers are now developing a pill that electrically stimulates endocrine cells in the stomach to trigger the release of ghrelin — this could potentially help people with health issues that cause nausea or loss of appetite, such as cancer…
Johns Hopkins University (JHU) researchers have developed an experimental brain cancer treatment that not only cured 100% of mice that received it, but also trained their immune systems to fight future cancers. Read more in Free Think New gel destroys…
As we go about our days almost nothing feels as immediate, as wholly our own, as our selves. You are always in there somewhere, thinking and feeling, directing action, like a little “you” managing the controls. But when we take…
A woman typed 62 words per minute — using only her mind. Electrodes recorded the woman’s brain activity while she tried saying phonemes, whole words, or entire sentences. Read more in freethink New brain implant breaks record for turning thoughts…
New breakthroughs in Alzheimer’s diagnostics may someday soon let us substantially alter the course of the disease. Read more in gatesnotes The reason I feel optimistic about the future of Alzheimer’s research By Bill Gates was last modified: September 21st,…
The more promising approach is to scrap the battery pack and use the vehicle’s body for energy storage instead. Unlike a conventional battery pack embedded in the chassis, these structural batteries are invisible. The electrical storage happens in the thin…
A research team from Johns Hopkins University designs microdevices that can deliver medicineThe tiny robots are based on parasite hookworms.The machines can latch on to the intestines and gradually release pain-relieving drugs. Read more in bigthink Tiny parasite-like…
BCG has surveyed global innovation executives since 2005 to reveal the 50 companies they most admire. Explore the changing rankings and then read this year’s Most Innovative Companies report. Read more in BCG The Most Innovative Companies Ranking over Time By…
