Editor’s Note (10/5/18): From a relatively young age, Doris Tsao distinguished herself as a leading scientist investigating the way the brain recognizes faces. On October 4 the John D. and Catherine T ...

Doris Tsao launched her career deciphering faces — but for a few weeks in September, she struggled to control the expression on her own. Tsao had just won a MacArthur Foundation ‘genius’ award, an ...

A Caltech team has deciphered the way we identify faces, re-creating what the brain sees from its electrical activity Our brains have evolved to recognize and remember faces. As infants, one of the ...

Facial recognition is becoming more accurate, but some systems exhibit racial bias and some uses of the technology are controversial Can Big Brother identify your face from street-level CCTV ...