In a lab rack that looks more like a high-end audio system than a server, clusters of human brain cells are quietly learning to process information. Electrodes feed them signals, nutrients keep them ...

The use of computers as props brings authenticity to works on the big and small screens, and can also inspire many different feelings in the viewer. Early filmmakers contributed powerful visions of ...

Paul Allen’s Seattle museums are getting a face-lift. As the EMP Museum at Seattle Center became the Museum of Pop Culture on Tuesday, a few miles down the road in Sodo members of the media were ...

This is part of an ongoing series on Seattle Museum Month. See our complete coverage so far, and check back later this month for more. There's one rule at the Living Computer Museum in Seattle: ...

The brain is powerful, and computers are powerful—why not harness their strength combined? Researchers at the University of Illinois (UIUC) have built a “living computer” using mouse brain cells in a ...

Anyone interested in the history of personal computing will surely have heard of the Xerox Alto, but when’s the last time you got to play with one? It’s been a while even for Paul Allen — long enough ...