Nathan Worcester
Senior Editor, Mind & Behavior and Technology
Nathan Worcester, based in Chicago, is the senior editor for Mind & Behavior and Technology for The Academic Times. Prior to that, Nathan wrote for various publications in Chicago. He has also worked as a technical writer for multiple law firms and served as managing editor of the New Art Examiner. He studied philosophy, history and English at the University of Chicago.




Scientists at Emory University and the Georgia Institute of Technology have created multiple new methods and systems for sleep monitoring, overcoming some limitations of previous approaches for tracking sleep disruptions with smartwatches or other wearables.




South Korean researchers have created a novel framework for detecting deepfakes — images or videos that deceptively substitute one person's face for another's — as well as an accompanying dataset of fake images, generated by experts using Adobe Photoshop.
Researchers have used minuscule flakes of graphene oxide to disrupt a harmful form of plasticity in the amygdala region of the brain, overcoming post-traumatic stress disorder in an animal model of the mental health condition.









