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DARPA Is Funding Brain-Computer Interfaces to Treat Blindness, Paralysis and Speech Disorders

July 10, 2017

A team led by Columbia’s Ken Shepard plans to create a prosthetic restoring sight to those that are blind, by layering a single, flexible circuit over the brain that could communicate wirelessly with a transceiver worn on the head.

Researchers Revolutionize Brain-Computer Interfaces Using Silicon Electronics

July 10, 2017
neuroscience

In new DARPA project, researchers exploit the latest in silicon electronics to invent an implanted brain-interface device that could transform how artificial systems enhance brain functions.

The Uninhabitable Earth

July 10, 2017

Wally Broecker, an oceanographer at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory who coined the term “global warming,” discusses ways to stave off catastrophic climate change.