Философ Елена Брызгалина о создании биологических коллекций, понятии биобанка и разных интересах стейкхолдеров

Personal info in government hands can help solve crimes, but triggers new privacy concerns.

Reality is constructed by the brain, and no two brains are exactly alike

The current privacy debate is making things worse by not considering trade-offs, the inherent nature of digital, or the far bigger problems that come with digitizing the offline world.

Twin studies and other analyses of inheritance of sexual orientation in humans has indicated that same-sex sexual behavior has a genetic component. Previous searches for the specific genes involved have been underpowered and thus unable to detect genetic…

​There are currently  UROP openings for this project. AttentivU is a neural AI platform for wireless non-invasive sensing of person’s cognitive state…

While we sleep, the brain replays memories of our experiences during the day. In this review, Klinzing et al. provide a concise overview of how the sleeping brain transforms and builds persisting memories through this process.

Scientific Reports - Humans perceive flicker artifacts at 500 Hz

Absorbers suppress reflection and scattering of an incident wave by dissipating its energy into heat. As material absorption goes to zero, the energy impinging on an object is necessarily transmitted or scattered away. Specific forms of temporal modulation…

Don’t just give away your privacy to the likes of Google and Facebook – protect it, or you disempower us all

Оказалось, достаточно пить два стакана в день (можно и диетическую колу)

Two experiments—small changes, instantly deployed; and automatically committing code that passes its tests, while deleting what fails—should have gone horribly wrong. They didn’t.

Городская система будет способна распознавать лица участников митингов

Janelia Research Campus scientists have mapped more than 1,000 neurons in the mouse brain. It’s the most extensive neural wiring diagram available, and the data are accessible online.

Mainstream dietary recommendations now commonly advise people to minimize the intake of red meat for health and environmental reasons. Most recently, a major report issued by the EAT-Lancet Commiss...

Our ΦID paper is finally out! https://t.co/ULe5eUuPe4 Integrated information decomposition is a framework that allow us to make sense of integrated information using principles of high-order statistics. Together with @PedroMediano, @RCarhartHarris, @anilkseth…

The media focuses on events, Our World in Data focuses on slow but long-lasting developments. News channels that focus on events are not able to show how our world is changing since many of the long trends that transformed our world do not get covered in…

Tesla’s battery research partner has released a new paper on a battery cell that could last over 1 million miles,...

When it comes to basic rights and freedoms, do digital devices deserve the same protection as our brains and bodies?

For social species such as primates, the recognition of conspecifics is crucial for their survival. As demonstrated by the ‘face inversion effect’, humans are experts in recognizing faces and unlike objects, recognize their identity by processing it configurally.…