The CIA created remote control dogs by surgically implanting electrodes in their brains in 1963, newly released documents reveal. US officials have been trying to hide the top secret 'behaviour ...

Cockroaches might not be the most beloved of all critters - but is it ethical to control their movement with mind-control technology? That’s a debate engineers at Texas A&M University are stirring ...

Swiss researchers have developed a way to "switch on" specific genes using the power of the mind. Their system uses human brainwaves to turn on an infrared light that then activates a gene to start ...

Fallout season two is kicking off with a bang… Literally, if you’re one of a few unlucky people who cross paths with Mr. House or Hank MacLean. But what is that’s making people’s heads go bang? We ...

Brainwashing is often viewed as a Cold War relic—think '60s films like "The Manchurian Candidate" and "The IPCRESS File." But Rebecca Lemov, professor of the history of science, argues in her recently ...

With one tap on his space bar, Andrea Stocco fires the cannon on his computer game and blows a rocket out of the sky. The game itself is unremarkable - in fact it looks like a relic of the 1980s. What ...

Their system uses human brainwaves to turn on an infrared light that then activates a gene to start making a protein in specially engineered cells. The scientists believe the futuristic technology ...