Elon Musk’s Neuralink may be the latest headline-grabber, but brain-to-computer interface (BCI) technology has been advancing for decades. Initially developed for therapeutic use, it is now poised to ...

Brainwashing is often viewed as a Cold War relic—think '60s films like "The Manchurian Candidate" and "The IPCRESS File." But Rebecca Lemov, professor of the history of science, argues in her recently ...

L. Ron Hubbard, Operation Midnight Climax, and stochastic terrorism—the race for mind control changed America forever. On an early spring day in 1959, Edward Hunter testified before a US Senate ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Image Credit: Shutterstock. The idea of mind control often evokes images of dystopian science fiction and shadowy figures pulling ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American “The Forgotten Era of Brain Chips,” published ...