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Meet the US government office for tricorders, thought-controlled robots, and new life forms

The ability to link human brains to machines, create new life forms and build Star Trek-style disease detectors will be the focus of a new Defense Department office soon. The new office, named the Biological Technology Office, or BTO, will serve as a clearinghouse for Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, programs into brain […]

Mind Meld! Top Brain-Controlled Techs

Neuroscientists are racing to perfect brain-computer interfaces and as they do, the line between sci-fi and reality blurs. Iron Man exoskeletons, Matrix-style brain downloads and Vulcan mind-melds feel within reach. “I think nothing is impossible up front,” said Deniz Erdogmus, an associate professor of electrical and computer engineering at Northeastern University specializing in noninvasive brain-computer […]

Faculty Senate at Northeastern elects Senate Agenda Committee for 2019-20

Biology professor Susan Powers-Lee was re-elected chair of the Senate Agenda Committee by the Faculty Senate on Wednesday at the first official meeting of the 2019-20 session.

Can current stimulate smarts?

Northeastern University researchers are part of an international, multidisciplinary  team exploring a first-of-its-kind approach to improve human intelligence by stimulating the  brain with low-level transcranial current applied to the scalp. 

‘Popping in’ on the latest research

From brain computer interfaces to gyroscopes, the next generation of healthcare technologies have something for everyone — and they’re being developed in Northeastern labs.

A brainy innovation takes flight

Engineering students develop a brainwave-control system for piloting a simulated airplane — and corporate and government researchers are interested

Racing down the neural highway

Two Northeastern professors enter a competition to solve neuroscience’s biggest mysteries

Brain powered

Northeastern undergraduate engineering students develop technology that can move a robot with the flicker of an eye