Decapitated flatworms, battery-free wireless, and ancient mystery games

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S C I E N C E Study: decapitated flatworms retain memories, transfer to new brains Biologists that sliced off the heads of trained planarian flatworms have discovered that the regenerative creatures can retain memories and transfer these to their new, regrown brains » T E C H N O L O G Y Researchers develop battery-free wireless communication system Engineers from the University of Washington have developed a wireless communication system -- called Ambient Backscatter -- that lets devices interact with each other without batteries for power » C U L T U R E Archaeologists discover 5,000-year-old tokens for mystery game A series of immaculately preserved stone tokens have been discovered at a 5,000 year-old burial site in Turkey. They could be the oldest gaming tokens ever found, say archaeologists » T E C H N O L O G Y Cybraphon the narcissistic self-Googling robot is depressed because you forgot him Cybraphon's narcissism is rekindled as it's rehomed in an Edinburgh museum » S I L I C O N   E U R O P E Wibbitz turns news articles into two-minute videos within ten seconds Wibbitz is a "Summly for video" that transforms any article into a one to two-minute video, extracting the salient points from the text, pulling in images and infographics and adding a voiceover » C U L T U R E Now you can buy your own Breaking Bad meth lab Lego set Breaking Bad is coming to a close, but that's no reason for the fun to end: introducing the unofficial Breaking Bad meth lab Lego set » Promotion Read Wired magazine online You can read the full selection of content from the August 2013 issue on our site, as well as explore the archive of older issues Click here W I R E D   B L O G Only two months to go until WIRED 2013 Check out our speaker lineup for WIRED 2013 in detail Listen » P O D C A S T Wired.co.uk Podcast 137: Hyperloop explained, spying bins, BlackBerry for sale Listen this week for an entertaining 30-minute look at the most interesting technology and science stories from the last seven days, with Wired.co.uk's Nate Lanxon, Olivia Solon and Liat Clark Listen »

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