Novel Brain Implants Help Paralyzed People Speak Faster, More Accurately
High-performance brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) decoded brain activity into speech faster, more accurately, and with a bigger vocabulary than existing technologies, two early trials in Nature showed. In the BrainGate2 study, speech-to-text BCI that recorded activity from intracortical microelectrode arrays (MEAs) decoded the speech of a woman with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) at 62 words per […]
Why chocolate feels so good — it is all down to lubrication
Scientists have decoded the physical process that takes place in the mouth when a piece of chocolate is eaten, as it changes from a solid into a smooth emulsion that many people find totally irresistible. By analysing each of the steps, the interdisciplinary research team at the University of Leeds hope it will lead to […]