MIT Neurotech: Tapping into Neurons with Autopatching
Whether you're walking, talking or contemplating the universe, a minimum of tens of billions of synapses are firing at any given second within your brain.
Expeditions
Neutrinos on Ice: Detection Balloon Heads to Antarctica
Editor’s Note: Welcome to ANITA, the ANtarctic Impulsive Transient Antenna! In late October, the ANITA collaboration is traveling to Antarctica to build and launch ANITA III, a scientific balloon that uses the entire continent of Antarctica for neutrino and cosmic ray detection...
MIT Neurotech: Mapping the Brain with Connectomics
We can make movies using atoms as characters, grow organs and even skydive from space, yet when it comes to understanding the finer details of the 1.3 kilogram organ behind each person's eyes - the brain - we're mostly in the dark...
The Return to Nepal: In Search of Soot
Editor's Note: This is the first installment in a new series by Ulyana Horodyskyj, who chronicled an earlier expedition to Nepal in a series called, "Climbing Mount Everest," which can be found by clicking here...
Return to the Antikythera Shipwreck: Treasures Found (and Maybe a Second Ship)
Editor's Note: Veteran science journalist Philip Hilts is working with a team of archeologists, engineers and divers off the shore of Antikythera, a remote Greek island, where a treasure ship by the same name sank in 70 B.C...
The Lawson Trek: Finding Something New
Editor's note: For The Lawson Trek, journalist Scott Huler is retracing the journey of discovery undertaken by canoe and on foot in 1700-1701 by John Lawson, the first observer to carefully describe and catalogue the flora, fauna, geography and inhabitants of the Carolinas...
MIT Neurotech: Microfluidics Opens a Window Into Unseen Worlds
A 14-foot aluminum alloy robot hurdles through the black of space at 13,000 miles per hour. For 350 million miles, its load of scientific instruments built t0 detect X-rays and analyze minerals sits isolated, periodically pinging the craft's home planet...
Technology
Submarine Exosuit Makes Its First Manned Ocean Dive
Editor's Note: Veteran science journalist Philip Hilts is working with a team of archeologists, engineers and divers off the shore of Antikythera, a remote Greek island, where a treasure ship by the same name sank in 70 B.C...
The Sciences
Diving to Antikythera Shipwreck, Technology Tackles Dangers of the Deep
Editor's Note: Veteran science journalist Philip Hilts is working with a team of archeologists, engineers and divers off the shore of Antikythera, a remote Greek island, where a treasure ship by the same name sank in 70 B.C...
MIT Neurotech: From Signals to Behavior
You're sitting outside posting pics of a beautiful day to Facebook when the smell hits you. A spicy, cheesy, carne asada-ey deliciousness that can only mean one thing: a burrito truck is near...
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