A team of Stanford scientists has revealed that it plans to sit Stephen Hawking down in a room, place a device on his head, and literally
hack his brain to work out what's going on in there.
The scientists, who have developed a tool called the iBrain (hey, imaginative!), will do this, on-stage, at a conference in Cambridge, UK, next month. Philip Low, a professor at Stanford and inventor of the
iBrain,
explains to the Telegraph: