It has been widely accepted that the rival interpretations of quantum mechanics, e.g., the Copenhagen Interpretation, the Many-Worlds Interpretation, and my father John Cramer’s Transactional Interpretation, cannot be distinguished or falsified by experiment, because the experimental predictions come from the formalism that all such interpretations describe. However, the Afshar Experiment demonstrates in an interaction-free way [...]

From the New York Times: A Japanese study has found that a drug combination rejected as a cancer treatment in the United States can add years to the lives of people with early lung cancer. Lung cancer is one of the most common and lethal types of cancer, killing 85 percent of its sufferers. Only [...]

From the New York Times: Can a machine read a person’s mind? A medical device company is about to find out. The company, Cyberkinetics Inc., plans to implant a tiny chip in the brains of five paralyzed people in an effort to enable them to operate a computer by thought alone. The Food and Drug [...]

From Science Daily: MIT scientists are reporting new insights into how the human brain recognizes objects, especially faces, in work that could lead to improved machine vision systems, diagnostics for certain neurological conditions and more. What is novel about this work is that it provides direct evidence of contextual cues eliciting object-specific neural responses in [...]

From the New Scientist: “Groundbreaking” new approaches to stopping mosquitoes spreading the malaria parasite have been discovered by gene researchers. The scientists identified three mosquito genes that dictate whether Plasmodium falciparum, the parasite which causes malaria, can survive and grow in the insect gut. The discoveries have raised new possibilities for stopping mosquitoes from spreading [...]