Stories by Kaspar Mossman

Brain-Training Software to Improve Your Driving Skills

Could computer software based on cognitive science improve older drivers' skills?

Brain Trainers: A Workout for the Mind

Put your cortex through its paces with these software games

Amyris Biotechnologies, Emeryville, Calif.

The emerging field of synthetic biology provides candidates for a new generation of biofuels

Research Leader of the Year: The Wellcome Trust Case Control Consortium, U.K.

Policy Leader of the Year: X Prize Foundation, Santa Monica, Calif.

The lure of multimillion-dollar prizes prompts inventors to pursue breakthroughs in space travel, DNA sequencing, automotive fuel efficiency, and robotics

Circuit Training

Computer games for mental workouts

Put Your Money Where Your Mind Is

A Cause for SIDS?

I, Elephant

The World's First Neural Stem Cell Transplant

In the coming decades this work could lead to treatments for neurodegenerative disorders that affect millions

Is Anybody in There?

God (Neurons) May Be Everywhere

Nuns volunteered to recall intense mystical experiences while being scanned in an MRI machine.

Safer Neuron Source

Circuit Training

Computer games for mental workouts

Neuro Nurses Unite

Misery Index Up

Stem Cells Cause Cancer

See What I Mean?

Migraine, Not Sinus

True Green

Architects and chemists strive to place an environmental stamp on their work