Although I was reading Discover when I saw the headline I expected a kind of futuristic bait and switch. that is, I thought the story would be about what could be done in the future, but no. Today, scientists are brain-controlling cyborg rats with their own brains. My aloud response: holy shit. One of the scientists not involved in the research concluded, “the holy grail would be for us to communicate directly when words fail… like emotion.” Seriously. No one in the article sounded an alarm. Please allow me…. DANGER WILL ROBINSON. DANGER! https://www.discovermagazine.com/technology/scientists-use-mind-control-to-move-rats-around-a-maze
This is, after all, the Chinese Year of the Rat.