
Solving the Cocktail Party Problem
Computers have great trouble deciphering voices that are speaking simultaneously. That may soon change

Solving the Cocktail Party Problem
Computers have great trouble deciphering voices that are speaking simultaneously. That may soon change

Cracking a Century-Old Enigma
Mathematicians unearth fractal counting patterns to explain a cryptic claim


Killer Science Portrayed on Dexter and Breaking Bad
This may be the golden age of small-screen science

Getting to Know You: Bit.ly Chief Scientist Finds Rich Data in Shortened Links
The brain behind many of the shortened URLs on the Web talks about data analysis and how it lets her figure out which soccer team won without watching the match

Watson Looks for Work
What's next for the artificially intelligent Jeopardy! champion?

UFOs, UAPs and CRAPs
Unidentified aerial phenomena offer a lesson on the residue problem in science

April 2011 Briefing Memo

Self-Restraint Leads Us to Prefer Aggression
Research shows that when we practice self-restraint, we also tend to prefer aggressive messaging and movies. Christie Nicholson reports

Music is All in the Mind
A brain-computer interface allows paralysed patients to play music with brainpower alone.

Right-Handers Tend to Prefer the Right Side
Recent research in the journal Psychological Science found that righties tend to prefer the right side of anything (spatially speaking) and lefties the left. Christie Nicholson reports

Natural homophobes? Evolutionary psychology and antigay attitudes

Calendar: MIND events in March and April
Museum exhibits, conferences and events relating to the brain