Waking Up with Wires: How Brain Stimulation Reprograms Emotion
Jon Nelson had his brain rewired. Not metaphorically. Electrodes, battery packs, wires snaking through his nervous system—an internal cybernetic upgrade straight out of a dystopian playbook. But unlike most sci-fi experiments, this one isn’t designed to control minds....
This Bionic Hand Feels, Thinks, and Grips Like It’s Straight Out of a Sci-Fi Thriller
Johns Hopkins engineers have done it. They’ve built a prosthetic hand that doesn’t just grab things—it *knows* what it’s grabbing. Plush toys? Handled. Water bottles? No problem. A fragile plastic cup filled with water? It cradles the cup like it’s holding an ancient...
Scientists May Have Just Outwitted COVID’s Endless Mutations
The virus that upended the world in 2020 is still playing its favorite game: mutation roulette. Every time scientists craft a treatment, SARS-CoV-2 mutates just enough to escape. Most pandemic-era antibody therapies are now about as useful as a floppy disk in the age...
Prostate Cancer vs. The Immune System: A New Plot Twist in the Fight
Prostate cancer has been laughing in the face of immunotherapy for years. Immune checkpoint inhibitors—miracle drugs in other cancers—barely make a dent. Scientists couldn’t explain why, and cancer cells weren’t exactly volunteering answers. Now, researchers at...
The Girl Who Lived: 18 Years Cancer-Free After a Sci-Fi-Level Therapy
Eighteen years ago, a four-year-old girl was given a futuristic cancer treatment that sounded like something out of a biomedical thriller—genetically engineered immune cells designed to annihilate her disease. The therapy, known as CAR-T cell treatment, was an...