--- description: Brain scans could determine guilt or innocence in court, scientists might have found dyslexia’s cause and a simple way to treat it and more. title: Brain Scans Could Determine Guilt or Innocence in Court image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [Ideas](/section/ideas/) ## Ideas Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [Innovation](/tag/innovation/) ## Innovation Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Brain Scans Could Determine Guilt or Innocence in Court by [The Aspen Institute](/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Oct 19, 2017 4:00 PM CUT by [The Aspen Institute](/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Oct 19, 2017 4:00 PM CUT **1\.** [**Could brain scans determine guilt or innocence in court?**](http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/next/body/could-brain-scans-determine-guilt-or-innocence-in-court/ "undefined") By Heather Mongilio at _Nova Next_ **2\.** [**Scientists might have found dyslexia’s cause and a simple way to treat it.**](https://www.afp.com/en/news/15/scientists-may-have-found-cause-dyslexia "undefined") By _Agence France Presse_ **3\.** [**To feed urban demand for water, African governments helped trigger the migrant crisis.**](http://e360.yale.edu/features/how-africas-big-water-projects-helped-trigger-the-migrant-crisis "undefined") By Fred Pearce in _Yale E360_ **4\.** [**Smartphones are probably killing us, but nobody’s counting.**](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-10-17/smartphones-are-killing-americans-but-nobody-s-counting "undefined") By Kyle Stock, Lance Lambert and David Ingold at _Bloomberg News_ **5\.** [**Why is the Supreme Court so afraid of simple math?**](https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-supreme-court-is-allergic-to-math/ "undefined") By Oliver Roeder in _FiveThirtyEight_  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/ "undefined") _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4989221/brain-scans-could-determine-guilt-or-innocence-in-court/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4989221/brain-scans-could-determine-guilt-or-innocence-in-court/"},"headline":"Brain Scans Could Determine Guilt or Innocence in Court","datePublished":"2017-10-19T16:00:39.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:58:23.917Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/4989221/brain-scans-could-determine-guilt-or-innocence-in-court/","keywords":["Innovation","Supreme Court","Africa","Crime","smartphone"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"The Aspen Institute","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/innovation/","name":"Innovation"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4989221/brain-scans-could-determine-guilt-or-innocence-in-court/","name":"Brain Scans Could Determine Guilt or Innocence in Court"}}]}] ```