An Australian primary school predicted “microchips in student’s brains” within 10 years before subsequently deleting the newsletter that contained the creepy prophecy. The bizarre entry was featured in the May 26 edition of the Preston West Primary school’s newsletter, which listed a number of prosaic things the school envisages will be helpful to educating children in a decade. They include... 

In a recent study, a team led by Moriah Thomason from New York University Langone scanned the brains of 118 fetuses in the second half of pregnancy. The researchers saw differences in how different brain regions connect together – but not everyone is convinced. Thomason said: “Males are more susceptible to environmental influences than female babies”. “We have previously seen that the prenatal... 

As more and more data flows from your body and brain to the smart machines via the biometric sensors, it will become easy for corporations and government agencies to know you, manipulate you, and make decisions on your behalf. Even more importantly, they could decipher the deep mechanisms of all bodies and brains, and thereby gain the power to engineer life. If we want to prevent a small elite from... 

The largest supercomputers in the world are inside of two companies… we’re pointing them at people’s brains, at children. Former Facebook and Google employees are speaking out against what they say are societal dangers posed by social media and smartphones. The group, which recently banded together to form the Center for Humane Technology, has teamed up with media watchdog Common Sense Media... 

While the Planned Parenthood harvesting scandal rumbles on, fewer news items have actually focused on what those who procure aborted fetal tissue and organs are actually doing with it. Pro life website LifeNews.com sheds some light on this today with a piece that reveals the brains of aborted babies are being transplanted into mice. The article notes that a recent commentary piece in The Scientist,... 

Plants Vs Zombies for Android is finally back with a major update, 6.0. They have finally decided to bring in the Vasebreaker and I, Zombie puzzles, now that Plants Vs Zombies 2 and Plants Vs Zombies: Garden Warfare are almost here. What’s more interesting is that they also brought in the Zen Garden and the Survival game mode. So now, years after the game was initially launched for Android almost... 

Though the plant-eating dinosaur Ampelosaurus was among the largest to walk the Earth, it had a tiny brain. That is according to a recent study. Scientists say that an advanced member of the biggest dinosaurs ever to walk the earth had a tiny brain, the size of a tennis ball. The scientists studied the skull of fossils of the dinosaur Ampelosaurus, which was discovered in the Spanish city of Cuenca... 

Latest victim: Judge Judy Sheindlin had to stop her courtroom TV show on Wednesday after descending into nonsensical language. A bizarre spate of television presenters dissolving into on-air gibberish has sparked claims that the U.S. military could be to blame. In four high-profile cases, the latest involving fast-talking Judge Judy, the presenters have started off speaking properly but have then descended... 

Otty Sanchez SAN ANTONIO — The scene was so gruesome investigators could barely speak: A 3 1/2-week-old boy lay dismembered in the bedroom of a single-story house, three of his tiny toes chewed off, his face torn away, his head severed and his brains ripped out. “At this particular scene you could have heard a pin drop,” San Antonio Police Chief William McManus said Monday. “No...