Batallions of super-soldiers could be selected for specific duties on the basis of their genetic make-up and then constantly monitored for signs of weakness, according to new research from the National Academy of Sciences. New advances in the neurosciences will make it possible to predict how soldiers are likely to respond to environmental stresses like extreme heat and cold, or endurance exercises and monitor them during battle.

Distinctive brain patterns could become the latest subject of biometric scanning after EU researchers successfully tested technology to verify ­identities for security checks.

A team of researchers in Spain has developed a robotic wheelchair that can be controlled by thoughts alone, enabling paralyzed individuals to navigate around buildings on their own.

Researchers in Brooklyn have been able to erase certain memories by applying with a single dose of an experimental drug delivered to areas of the brain critical for holding specific types of memory, like emotional associations, spatial knowledge or motor skills.

Research teams have made technical advances that have significantly reduced the time it takes to process high-speed "color" ultrastructure mapping of brain regions from decades down to a few months.

Neuroscience research into how we think and what we're thinking is advancing at a stunning rate, making it possible for the first time in human history to peer directly into the brain to read out the physical make-up of our thoughts, some would say to read our minds.

A team of scientists from the U.S. and China announced that they had found a means of selectively and safely erasing memories in mice, an advance the military is interested in for treating post-traumatic stress disorder and possibly creating an 'amnesia ray' weapon.

In the future, soldiers may be communicating silently with sophisticated "thought helmets." The devices would harness a person´s brain waves and transmit them as radio waves, where they would be translated into words in the headphones of other soldiers.

India has become the first country to convict someone of a crime relying on evidence from a controversial brain scanner that produces images of the human mind in action and is said to reveal signs that a suspect remembers details of the crime in question.

Rapid advances in neuroscience could have a dramatic impact on national security and the way in which future wars are fought, US intelligence officials have been told.