Boosting a person's smarts through drugs or electrical or magnetic stimulation of the brain is becoming an increasingly widespread practice. Now, bioethicists are weighing in, saying that while such ...

This post was co-authored by Stacey Humphries, Ph.D. Would you take a pill if it made you more productive at work? Or perform better in school? Would you care if other people around you took such a ...

A few years ago, I ran across a particularly intriguing photograph on the back page of a magazine. The photo showed a small boy at the ocean's edge. Beyond him you could see a gray sky, a distant ...

(CBS) If a college campus survey holds true for the entire nation, most of this year's graduating seniors at American colleges have illegally used prescription drugs to boost their brain power. "60 ...

Imagine finding your location without GPS. Now apply this to tracking an item in the body. This has been the challenge with tracking “smart” pills – pills equipped with smart sensors–once swallowed.