A teacher who threw his terminally ill 79-year-old mother to her death from a first-floor balcony spared jail as judge describes it as a “mercy killing” Telegraph reports. A “devoted, loving son” who killed his dying mother to end her suffering by dropping her from a first floor fire escape at a care home has been given a suspended jail term. Robert Knight, 53, pleaded guilty... 

Electrodes distributed over the brain of a volunteer A new study conducted in the University of California has enabled scientists to find a way to decipher actual words from human brain waves. A team of neuroscientists worked with a group of epileptic patients who were under the treatment for difficult curable seizures. They placed electrodes in a part of brain which is involved in understanding speech. They...