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Think not in terms of the bottom line, but the skyline.

Singularity University's Peter Diamandis discusses one way in which virtual reality — a burgeoning exponential technology — will disrupt unexpected sectors of culture and society.

Could humans someday live to be 1,000 years old? Life extension and radical longevity are rising topics of conversation among futurist circles... and wealthy tech entrepreneurs are listening.

Consciousness is an emergent property of the brain, resulting from the communication of information across all its regions and cannot be reduced to something residing in specific areas.

How often a film is referenced in other films is a better determiner of how important the work is than the combined efforts of reviewers, critics, awards, and box office sales.

Michio Kaku: Can We Download Our Brains? One day we might be able to download our consciousness into a computer chip, preserving our personalities forever—but first we will have to […]

Is innovation always a good thing? In the right hands, the myriad tech innovations on the immediate horizon could help solve humanity's most pressing problems. In the wrong hands, change could lead to struggle.

An international survey of school teachers has found that the vast majority believes in myths about the brain and wrongly adapt their lessons to accommodate these myths.

Two individuals separated by 5,000 miles have successfully communicated without typing or saying a word to each other. Rather it was their brains that did the talking.

While ambiguity and shades of gray tend not fit the paradigm of technological solutions, they represent the arts' most powerful capabilities: to express life with all its complexities. 

How to Reverse Aging Enzymes like Telomerase and Resveratrol, though not the Fountain of Youth unto themselves, offer tantalizing clues to how we might someday soon unravel the aging process. […]

Dubai is set to build the world's largest--and truly first--completely climate-controlled city. The structure will measure 48 million square feet, including 20,000 rooms available for stay.

From self-parking cars to voice-recognition software on smartphones, the ability of individual machines to learn from collected sets of data is the forefront of artificial intelligence research.

"One of the greatest challenges to the engineering of large tissues and organs is growing a network of blood vessels and capillaries," said the scientist leading current research efforts.

Sam Harris: The Self is an Illusion Sam Harris describes the properties of consciousness and how mindfulness practices of all stripes can be used to transcend one’s ego. Ray Kurzweil: […]

Google's prototype for a completely automated car radically changes the driving experience from actively controlling the vehicle to removing even the option of steering, accelerating, or braking.

Similar to how affection-detecting machines were used in the film Blade Runner, the Brazilian researchers' methods could possibly be used to anticipate crime.

No single factor can explain the aging process. Rather, lifespan is determined by complex interactions among diet, mitochondrial DNA, and nuclear DNA.

The US Navy is funding a research effort to equip robots with the decision making tools necessary to make split-second decisions between right and wrong. 

The next generation of the Internet will be more deeply integrated into our lives through our use of everyday objects, from house keys, to coffee cups, to our pet's food bowl.

Google is looking to build an artificial brain, a fact that "some may consider thrilling and others deeply unsettling. Or both."

Your computer will be able to answer your questions before you ask them or even before you realize you have a question.

The idea of uploading your brain to the Internet has been proposed by the likes of Stephen Hawking and Ray Kurzweil. According to Michael Graziano, the question is not if, but when, and what then?  

Ray Kurzweil is the author of the book How to Create a Mind. The first question we have for him is “why create a mind?”

If life expansion becomes achievable, the question still remains whether it will be accessible for everyone, as opposed to just the super rich.

Scientists have developed a way of trapping single sperm cells inside metal nanotubes. The direction of these 'spermbots' can be controlled remotely to deliver drugs or fertilize an egg.

The basic technologies to enable us to look inside the brain and see its functioning are growing exponentially. And they're at a point now where we can actually see individual interneural connections forming and firing.

Your computer will be an assistant that helps you through the day, will answer your questions before you ask them or even before you realize you have a question

Researchers at the University of Buffalo recently tested a submerged Internet network that uses sound waves to transmit data. They envision a host of applications, including oceanographic data collection and tsunami warning.

Bioethicist Paul Root Wolpe argues that the Singularity envisioned by Ray Kurzweil isn't quite right.