Arduino’s new $34 webcam brings computer vision to its Pi-like microcomputer.

You can use it as a regular USB webcam on Windows, macOS, or Linux PCs, but Arduino’s new plug-and-play accessory is ...

Using light to control brain cells – neuroscientist Karl Deisseroth explains how he made his Nobel‑winning discovery

Optogenetics, a field that started with an algae gene, is shedding light on new treatments for eye and neuropsychiatric ...
Wired

The Science Behind the Nobel-Winning Technology That Controls Neurons With Light

The Karolinska Institute awarded the 2026 Nobel Prize in Medicine to researchers Karl Deisseroth of Stanford University, Peter Hegemann of Humboldt University in Berlin, and Georg Nagel of the ...
Tech Xplore

Laser-sculpted bumps that guide light around obstacles could make fiber-optic communications faster and more reliable

University of Maryland (UMD) assistant professor Avik Dutt and research colleagues have demonstrated a new way to control ...

Controlling the brain with light earns a physiology Nobel

Over decades of research, scientists have built up a partial picture of what specialized cells within the brain and spinal ...
Nature

Medicine Nobel awarded for brain ‘switch’ that controls neurons with light

Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel win the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their work on ...