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In light of the interrelatedness of all life, we have an obligation to remove silos and broaden biological and biomedical thinking.

It’s graduation season and young people everywhere are listening to speeches rife with promises of new beginnings. With one baby boomer turning 67 every seven to eight seconds, many older […]

What scares me most is how we start to think the way the technology wants us to think.

What it was like to be a man in the early 1960s, but one who was not Don Draper or Roger Sterling, is an issue that is both poignant and chronically unconsidered in hindsight. 

The three winners of the Toshiba/NSTA ExploraVision Program, the world’s largest K-12 science competition, showcased their project at the White House Science Fair hosted by President Barack Obama. 

iFixit CEO and co-founder Kyle Wiens says that as technology grows more advanced, the ability of individual owners to modify the items they’ve bought becomes more difficult, and existing copyright laws don’t make it any easier.

“While there’s quite a lot of research that shows memory worsens as we get older, perhaps the way we choose what to remember is a means of adapting to changes in brain function.” 

The text messaging service, which tracks animal health and market prices, is just one of many apps that are helping to transform life in sub-Saharan Africa, the world’s fastest-growing mobile market.

By feeding test subjects’ likes into a set of algorithms, Cambridge University researchers were able to deduce a surprisingly accurate amount of information about them. Privacy advocates say this should “ring alarm bells” for users.

Lancaster University researchers have created software that, when used in combination with a screen, can detect the gazes of up to 14 passersby and change advertisements accordingly.

A paradox of selling technology in the 21st century is that it’s often more difficult to convince users that they need the latest gadget, even if that gadget is more […]

The Health eHeart Study will use apps, sensors, and similar devices to collect real-time information on subjects. Those interested can also sign up on the study’s Web site without a doctor visit, a first for such a major study.

It used to be that the business landscape was a man’s world. Times are changing! Today, women are wielding more and more power on both sides of the business transaction. […]

The Regional Cabled Observatory — the largest of its kind — will use underwater sensors and cables to transmit many different kinds of data about the northeast Pacific Ocean.

Located 1,200 light-years from here, in the northern constellation Lyra, NASA’s Kepler spacecraft has discovered two planets whose size and orbits make them the exoplanets most similar to Earth yet.

It is a new world where Machiavellian’s vertical hierarchies have been complemented with horizontal webs and networks.

Using 2.5 billion mobile call records from five million cell-phone users in Ivory Coast, IBM has created a system of bus routes estimated to cut workers’ commute time by ten percent.

Researchers at Duke University have enabled rats to feel infrared light by implanting special sensors into the brain, allowing the rodents to “touch” extra-sensory information invisible to their eye.

This post originally appeared in The Daily Caller. You can read the original here. In this era of tone-deaf leadership, it seems the National Security Agency is the only government […]

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

Beyond the microchip lies quantum computing. Beyond that lies quark-scale computing, made from materials a billion billion billion times smaller than the current computational scale.

Whether you’re aware of it or not, your unconscious insecurities hold you back, and you need to be able to construct your failure narrative if you hope to reach your true potential. 

Capitalism forces nations to compete for market share, natural resources and human capital. Less obvious so, they also compete for names, brands and terminologies. 

“Sure, today’s Olympics are corrupt, rife with cheating, and riddled with scandal, but at least today’s games aspire to the noble ideals of the ancient Greeks—amateurism, fair play, and peace,” […]

I often have pointed out that interviewing people gives me the opportunity to shut the fuck up.  I don’t have to talk. There’s certainly this idea that interviewing doesn’t involve […]

The Digital Public Library of America launched last week with an ambitious goal: To provide online access to content from as many libraries’ archives as possible for free.

Our genome sequence does not determine everything that is going to happen to us throughout the rest of our lives.

The biggest lesson from Popper’s philosophy is that skepticism is the ultimate open-mindedness.

            What a revealing real-time lesson we are living through right now in how humans respond to risk. More than a million people in Boston and several large surrounding cities […]

Monday’s twin blasts occurred at a time when more people than ever use social media. Authorities hope the photos and videos that bombarded the Internet in the moments following the attack will prove useful in their search.