“When blind people take a taxi, they will be able to give directions to the taxi driver!” says Jose Luis Fernandez Coya. The man speaking really knows what he is talking about: he is blind but also ...

Automakers and tech startups have been pushing autonomy on consumers for the last few years. While it appears no on asked whether or not anyone was really interested it, they just started developing ...

Oral contraceptives for women, like the ones pictured above, were first approved by the federal government in 1960. Now, University of Minnesota researchers are working on oral contraceptives for men.

A biomedical engineering graduate student holds a brain model of a man with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis who uses a brain-computer interface to speak. The student has added functionality to the brain ...

“We all have a personal recipe for productivity. One person may need six cups of autonomy and just a pinch of collaboration. Another person may require heaps of sociability and noise, with just a ...

Older people invited by HelpAge International are at the United Nations in New York this week, taking part in the ninth session of the Open-ended Working Group on Ageing (OEWG). Vanda Ou and Vérène ...

People who experience manic episodes often describe the sense of being overwhelmed by the intensity of life. This can interfere with careful and thoughtful deliberation, replacing it with impulsive ...