A Space X rocket suffered a setback on the launch pad this week, but the company’s founder, Elon Musk, is making progress on other fronts. News involving a neural lace—a digital layer for the brain that could one day link humans and machines—may be coming "in a few months." Elsewhere, Stanford engineers developed a cooling fabric that can efficiently lower body temperature and possibly reduce the need for air conditioning, and researchers in San Diego grew a piece of mouse skull from stem cells. Read on a hopefully grow a synapse or two.