Neuroscience has longed to map the human brain in real time; MRI is a great tool, but it’s a passive scan that can only describe a ‘rest state’, a mere snapshot of the activity. Finnish company Nexstim has taken the next step by developing a procedure called Navigated Brain Stimulation, or NBS. Their device can target electromagnetic stimuli in specific parts of the brain of a patient, and then measure the effects via EEG in real-time, allowing for far more effective diagnosis of dysfunction. In a hospital near you, soon.

The brilliantly-named Asha Deliverance is a co-founder of Pacific Domes, a company that are pushing to revive interest in geodesic structures, as once evangelised by Buckminster Fuller. Their domes are turning up at festivals and corporate events quite regularly now, so no doubt they’ll be well-placed to cash in when the weather systems get worse and we have to cover whole cities with them…

Science, as well as science fiction, has long dreamed of replacing lost or damaged (or simply inadequate) human limbs with bionic prosthetics. Progress has been slow to date, as it’s notoriously hard to get the human body to accept non-biological materials as ‘part of the furniture’. A breakthrough at University College, London may change all that though – a way of securing a titanium rod into human bone, and having the skin heal and mesh around it without bleeding or infections.

Wired News reports on the next generation of cybersex sites. The old days of surreal text-based interaction in chatrooms is giving way to social-network-esque communities, with a big emphasis on gameplay as well as the partner-hunting.

More news from the nanoscale – electrical charges can travel along conductors made of chromophores faster than any recorded speed for organic semiconductors by a factor of three. Chromophores are the parts of molecules that give them a colour, and they react to electrons by releasing more light of a specific wavelength. All this heavy science means there is a working proof for electronic conductors that function at the 10 nanometer scale.