Is there a part of the brain that allows us to lie?? And, if so, could it be temporarily disabled?? Intelligence community researchers think it may, indeed, be possible.
If you want to?take in a classic?Hitchcock movie?as we approach Halloween, try?"Vertigo."? Interestingly, the legendary film-maker's approach to approach to making movies was uniquely influenced by an engineering background.
When you delete an e-mail or Facebook photo, you don't see it anymore but it might not be gone from cyberspace.? Now researchers are working on a permanent delete.
Imagine a 23-foot long video wall, that provides a hundred times more detail than the best high-definition TV. It exists but, sorry, football fans, only for science now.
Syringe needles can cause infections, accidental pricks, and ? of course ? pain. Engineers are working to make those injection needles pointless.
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