Brain-Reading Devices Help Paralyzed People Move, Talk and Touch

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April 22, 2022

Neuroscience Brain-Reading Devices Help Paralyzed People Move, Talk and Touch Implants are becoming more sophisticated—and are attracting commercial interest By Liam Drew,Nature magazine

Conservation How Conserving 30 Percent of U.S. Land by 2030 Could Work Achieving the 30x30 goal, as it is known, requires much more than declaring more national parks By Andrea Thompson

Anthropology Egyptian Mummy Reunited with Intricate Nesting Coffins Chemical analysis and CT scanning reveal the identity of an ancient Egyptian By Joshua Rapp Learn

Ecology Cities Build Better Biologists Urban environments naturally train critical thinkers and observational experts who are the future of ecology By Nyeema C. Harris

History Offensive Names Should Be Removed from Public Lands Efforts to change problematic names, whether on federal, state or local lands, are steps toward justice and reconciliation By Bonnie McGill

Conservation Biden Aims to Protect the Nation's Old Trees to Help with Carbon Removal The president is issuing an executive order requiring the federal government to catalog the nation's biggest trees By Scott Waldman,E&E News

Climate Change Insects Are Dying Off Because of Climate Change and Farming Tropical regions show the greatest risk for insect declines By Chelsea Harvey,E&E News

Defense AI Drug Discovery Systems Might Be Repurposed to Make Chemical Weapons, Researchers Warn A demonstration with drug design software shows the ease with which toxic molecules can be generated By Rebecca Sohn

Computing Lost Women of Science Podcast, Season 2, Episode 4: Netherworld Klára Dán von Neumann enters the Netherworld of computer simulations and postwar Los Alamos National Laboratory By Katie Hafner,The Lost Women of Science Initiative

FROM THE STORE Scientific American Mind, Volume 33, Issue 3

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FROM THE ARCHIVE New Brain Implant Transmits Full Words from Neural Signals No spelling out of letters is needed for a paralyzed person to use the first-of-a-kind neuroprosthesis By Emily Willingham | July 2021

QUOTE OF THE DAY "It felt like The Matrix...We hooked up to the computer, and lo and behold I was able to move the cursor just by thinking." James Johnson, participant in clinical trial of a brain–computer interface

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