High-speed light-based systems could replace supercomputers for certain ‘deep learning’ calculations

Low power requirements for photons (instead of electrons) may make deep learning more practical in future self-driving cars and mobile consumer devices

A noninvasive method for deep-brain stimulation for brain disorders

Could make deep-brain stimulation less risky, less expensive, and more available to patients and researchers

Researchers decipher how faces are encoded in the brain

Only 205 neurons required per face; findings also have artificial intelligence applications

Playing a musical instrument could help restore brain health, research suggests

33 blood-cancer patients have dramatic clinical remission with new T-cell therapy

How to design and build your own robot

Simplified interactive design tool will let you select 3D-printed parts and off-the-shelf components

Are you ready for pop-up, shape-shifting food? Just add water.

Gelatin sheets that transform into edible 3D shapes when dunked in water could save food shipping costs. And they’re fun.

VR glove powered by soft robotics provides missing sense of touch

Common antioxidant could slow symptoms of aging in human skin

New antibiotic could eliminate the global threat of antibiotic-resistant infections

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