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Einstein Award nominations are open. The Open Science Atlas was a finalist last year

Efforts to address overflow issues come as the Milwaukee County Jail, wrestling with dire staffing shortages, is in the grips of a retention and hiring crisis.

Can monitoring brain waves boost mental health?

Neurofeedback has promised a mental health revolution for decades. But is it effective?

Over one year after the installation, the official unveiling ceremony for the Manitou Reflections project was held in July.The stainless-steel work of...

I’m sitting in my desk chair, staring at a group of jellyfish on my phone, and wearing a neurofeedback device called URGOnight ($499), a bulky white headband fitted with four gold electrodes that runs across my forehead, on top of my head, and behind my ears. Occasionally a jellyfish disappears from my phone screen and a little happy piano note sounds—my “reward” ping. I’m confused. I like sea jellies. Why would I want them to disappear? I try staring around my room. I glance at...

By Anna Wexler April 7, 2021Reprints Adobe The titans of Silicon Valley say that the brain-computer interface revolution is coming, and neurotech devices will soon meld mind and machine, allowing us to communicate effortlessly with our computers — and even one another — just by using our thoughts. But I believe their prognostications aren’t likely to come to fruition anytime soon. Elon Musk invested $100 million into his neurotech startup, Neuralink, to develop an implantable device he ha...