The popular pay-TV provider, Multichoice, has slashed the price of the DStv decoder from N10,000 to a N7,900, while the GOtv decoder price dropped to N6,500. This second major adjustment in months, ...

A new brain-computer interface can decode a person's inner speech, which could help people with paralysis communicate. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

O. Rose Broderick reports on the health policies and technologies that govern people with disabilities’ lives. Before coming to STAT, she worked at WNYC’s Radiolab and Scientific American, and her ...

A participant is using the inner speech neuroprosthesis. The text above is the cued sentence, and the text below is what's being decoded in real-time as she imagines speaking the sentence. Scientists ...

Take this quiz to test how fluent you are in the lingo of today’s tech industry. Credit... Supported by By Mike Isaac Photographs by Ian C. Bates Mike Isaac has lived in the San Francisco Bay Area ...

Why aliens might take an interest in livestock, how pharmaceuticals get such wacky names, and more listener questions. For questions about subscriptions or your Slate ...

The puzzle seems impossible: take a three-billion-letter code and predict what happens if you swap a single letter. The code we’re talking about—the human genome—stores most of its instructions in ...

Artificial intelligence can read data stored in DNA strands within 10 minutes rather than the days required for previous methods, bringing DNA storage closer to practical use in computing. “DNA can ...

An improvement to an existing AI-based brain decoder can translate a person's thoughts into text without hours of training. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...