Testing ‘brain vital signs’
In 2010, Winifred Rodrigues woke in the middle of the night to what sounded like snoring, but wasn’t. She turned the light on...
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Kate Lunau
Kate Lunau is a health and science writer at Maclean’s Magazine, who previously reported for the Montreal Gazette. She’s the recipient of several journalism awards, including the 2014 Yves Fortier Earth Science Journalism Award, and has been nominated for two National Magazine Awards. Like Elon Musk, she hopes to retire on Mars.
Inside a comatose mind
New research raises the unsettling possibility that some vegetative patients may actually be awake and aware
Building a better human
Scientists are already able to replace many worn-out or missing body parts with new ones. But two-thirds of a person?
Electronic tattoos: ’The sky’s the limit’
Science advances in wearable tech and health
Google’s Ray Kurzweil on the quest to live forever
How nanobots will help the immune system, and why we’ll be much smarter, thanks to machines
Using a heartbeat as a sort of password
Implanted medical devices are so common that, in the future, devices will be vulnerable to hackers
Beyond the EEG: Life after ’flat line’
Discovery of a new type of brain activity hints at just how much we have left to learn
The thinking behind the first ‘Vulcan mind meld’
Video: Kate Lunau on the first human brain-to-brain interface
’Project Inception’ plants false memories in the minds of mice
The good, the bad and the fake in the brains of rodents
Higgs boson a no-win situation for Nobel prize committee
Nobel Prize goes to Francois Englert and Peter W. Higgs