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Research

Big questions, real instruments, and a team of human and artificial minds.

MNEOS research runs on three fronts: brain health through Neuroclearance, AI that remembers through DOS, and physical engineering where ideas meet hardware. Every program shows exactly where it stands and the next problem you could help solve.

Programs

Three fronts, each with a clear next step

Brain health and healthy aging

Neuroclearance

Can a better understanding of brain physiology lead to useful approaches to brain health, recovery and healthy aging?

We are building the instruments to understand how the brain clears, repairs and sustains itself, so that understanding can become better lives. The first bench prototype is being built now.

Bench prototype in development

Latest: Public site and brain-health library launched at neuroclearance.com (October 2026)
Updated: October 10, 2026

Open the program page · Visit neuroclearance.com

Scientific AI and memory

Scientific AI and memory

Can a research system answer what changed, show where that answer came from and preserve what a human decided to do about it?

AI that remembers why. We are building DOS, a memory that keeps every source, decision and lesson, so human and machine intelligence can compound across every project instead of starting over.

Capability-specific development

Latest: Capability inventory published with scoped status (September 2026)
Updated: September 28, 2026

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Materials, manufacturing and testing

Physical engineering

How should measured results change a model, a material choice and the next experiment?

Ideas have to survive the physical world. Through related programs in materials, manufacturing and testing, we put models and AI to work on real hardware, then build the embodied systems that will do it alongside us.

Related programs operated by MacroVation and Helicon Defense; MNEOS method development

Latest: Operating organizations and MNEOS roles identified for each example (September 2026)
Updated: September 28, 2026

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Open problems

Questions you could help answer

Open problem OP-01

Trustworthy bench measurements

Which measurement limitations could invalidate an interpretation of the first Neuroclearance bench results?

First useful contribution: A proposed calibration, timing and uncertainty plan for the bench configuration, written against the stated conditions.

Expertise: Instrumentation, metrology, controls engineering
Status: Open now · contact David Sherrer · updated September 28, 2026

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Open problem OP-02

Evidence for lasting benefit

What would distinguish a transient physiological response from meaningful, durable function in brain-health research?

First useful contribution: An endpoint and alternative-explanations review: what would count, what could mislead, and what a later study would need.

Expertise: Neuroscience, physiology, clinical methods, statistics
Status: Open now · contact David Sherrer · updated September 28, 2026

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Open problem OP-03

Memory that can be checked

How can a research system retain why a decision was made and revise that record correctly when new evidence arrives?

First useful contribution: A small evaluation set: questions, the sources that answer them, and decision revisions a system should reproduce.

Expertise: Knowledge representation, retrieval, scientific software
Status: Open now · contact David Sherrer · updated September 28, 2026

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Open problem OP-04

Model to physical evidence

How should measured results change a model and the next experiment, in a way a later engineer can audit?

First useful contribution: A reproducible example with model assumptions, a measurement, comparison criteria and the resulting revision.

Expertise: Applied mathematics, physics, experimental design
Status: Open now · contact David Sherrer · updated September 28, 2026

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Foundations

The mathematics and physics underneath the work

Foundations

Mathematical sciences

Modeling, optimization and inverse design, uncertainty, geometry and computation, and scientific machine reasoning: mathematics as an engineering instrument.

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Foundations

Computational physics

Physics-based modeling, verification, uncertainty quantification and the coupling of models to measured evidence.

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Examples on the depth pages that reference specific programs are labeled as illustrative where measured evidence has not been released.

Where this goes

The frontier we are building toward

Where the work goes next. Each of these becomes a full program as it gains its own work, evidence and owner, and the people who join early will help decide the order.

  • Healthy aging and resilience, neurological recovery, cognitive function: handled today as research directions inside Neuroclearance.
  • Embodied AI and humanoid robotics: AI with hands in the laboratory and on the manufacturing line, working alongside people as members of the team. This is where MNEOS is heading.
  • Autonomous experimentation: instruments and manufacturing cells that AI can run under human direction, with every run recorded and learned from.
  • Future biological interfaces: exploratory research that will get its own public summary as it matures.
  • Materials, manufacturing and sensing: pursued through related programs described on the Physical engineering page.
  • Memory, provenance and institutional knowledge: the intellectual foundation explored in Why MNEOS and the Library.