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Protecting our brain power from being coveted

Dictating a text just by thinking about it Expanding your memory with brain implants Creating memories in a mouses brain While these innovations are still at the experimental stage they are no longer in the realm of science fiction Advances in our understanding of the brains mechanisms are now making possible what seemed unthinkable only a short while ago While this progress holds great promise for the treatment of certain diseases it also raises important ethical questions In its latest report UNESCOs International Bioethics Committee warns of the possible infringement of human rights that the use of these new technologies entails

January 12, 2022

In China, new hope for the “children of the stars”

Advances in neuroscience combined with the neurochemical powers of acupuncture offer new hope for treating autistic children in China referred to as children of the stars

February 2, 2022

Crime: Does brain scan evidence work?

Neurotechnology has made it possible to considerably improve lie detection techniques Although these devices are becoming increasingly accurate they raise numerous legal and ethical questions Evidence derived from the observation of the brain has been ruled inadmissible by most courts around the world

February 3, 2022

African neuroscience: Desperately seeking diversity

The field of neuroscience remains largely dominated by industrialized countries Africa could still make a significant contribution to global research provided that new policies are put in place to stimulate scientific innovation on the continent

February 3, 2022

Santiago Ramón y Cajal: The first to map the human brain

February 3, 2022

Hacking the brain: More fantasy than reality

Although there has been spectacular progress in neuroscience in recent decades the possibilities that have been opened up by the development of braincomputer interfaces are not infinite An extremely complex mechanism the brain has far from revealed all its secrets

January 11, 2022

Rafael Yuste: “Let’s act before it’s too late”

We now know how to induce hallucinations in mice by manipulating their cerebral cortex What we can do in mice today will be possible to do in humans tomorrow Neurobiologist Rafael Yuste warns that there is an urgent need to put regulatory frameworks in place to protect the exploitation of our brain activity Chair of the NeuroRights Foundation and a professor of Biological Sciences and Neuroscience at Columbia University in New York Yuste is campaigning for the protection of our neurorights

February 3, 2022

Neuroscience in schools: Between a mirage and a miracle

In the 2000s educational neuroscience was regarded by some as a tool capable of revolutionizing schools Twenty years later the field may not have lived up to all its promises but it remains a relevant resource for providing scientific validation to some educational practices

January 12, 2022

Chile: Pioneering the protection of neurorights

Chile is set to become the first country in the world to legislate on neurotechnologies and include brain rights in its constitution

Translation: From one world to another

A component of our shared humanity

It is a littleknown world hardly limited to its literary dimension translation is a tool for promoting languages a discreet part in the economy and a vehicle for ideas But it is also a domain in transformation shaken up by the advances of artificial intelligence Perhaps above all it is the means for each civilization to access the other

Do translators need to resemble the authors they translate?

To render an authors voice with justice That is the role of the translator But does this representative task demand a certain resemblance with the author If so to what extent While the issue is not a new one it recently became subject to heated debate Other than fueling discussions between propagators of universalism and defenders of diversity it raised the complex question of legitimacy in translation

In Mexico, drawings to translate words

Published in 2021 the book Intraducibles Untranslatables illustrates a series of words from indigenous languages without equivalents in Spanish