A new study has shown that controlling devices with the brain is a step closer. The study involved four people, two of them partly paralysed wheelchair users. All of them learned to successfully move a computer cursor while wearing a cap with 64 electrodes.



ScienCentral have a report on new research into how background noise affects hearing, showing it may actually scramble brain activity - a concern given that noise pollution is apparently rising.

For the last 8 years, Teresa Amabile, head of the Entrepreneurial Management Unit at Harvard Business School, has been collecting daily journal entries from 238 people working on creative projects in seven companies in the consumer products, high-tech, and chemical industries, and from this database of "creativity in the wild" she has come up with 6 operating principles for fostering creativity in the workplace.