Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scientists are experimenting with ways to integrate brain cells into computer processors. The technology could help conserve ...

In a lab rack that looks more like a high-end audio system than a server, clusters of human brain cells are quietly learning to process information. Electrodes feed them signals, nutrients keep them ...

Scientists are growing tiny clumps of living human brain cells and using them to power computers. The emerging field, known as biocomputing or wetware, is being explored by a handful of research ...

The use of computers as props brings authenticity to works on the big and small screens, and can also inspire many different feelings in the viewer. Early filmmakers contributed powerful visions of ...

Paul Allen’s Seattle museums are getting a face-lift. As the EMP Museum at Seattle Center became the Museum of Pop Culture on Tuesday, a few miles down the road in Sodo members of the media were ...

It’s pretty easy to tell how each day is going for Bruce Sherry, Principle Engineer at Paul Allen’s Living Computer Museum (LCM). As LCM’s self-labeled “Techromancer,” the veteran of such companies as ...

The brain is powerful, and computers are powerful—why not harness their strength combined? Researchers at the University of Illinois (UIUC) have built a “living computer” using mouse brain cells in a ...

JG This is the first thing you see: a DEC PDP-7, a "minicomputer" introduced by Digital Equipment Corporation in 1965. JG This is Aaron. You would like him. At the admissions desk to the Living ...