A Laboratory of the Future Human Experience
Electrical brain stimulation benefited subjects for months.
A small laboratory study of university students has found that random electrical stimulation, a technique that applies a gentle current through the skull, leads to a long-lasting boost in the speed of mental calculations.
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Scientists are working on an electronic “sex chip” that will be able to stimulate pleasure centers in the brain.
Six people in New Zealand have become the first to be implanted with a novel form of cardiac defibrillator that could radically change the way that people with life-threatening heart conditions are treated.
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Pressure to make sex education compulsory in UK schools is likely to mount as latest abortion figures hovered around the 200,000 mark, with a 10 per cent rise in terminations among under-aged girls.
The official survey showed there were 198,500 abortions last year, up by nearly 30,000 in the decade since Labor came to power. In 1969, the first full year after abortion was legalized, the total was under 50,000.