Straight from the pages of “Harry Potter”: The multi-camera system is currently used in nursing homes to monitor residents. However, its designers say it could help identify suspected terrorists in public settings.
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Yes, the kitten with four eyes, two noses and two mouths is real. She was born on Tuesday and answers to, cue the pun, “Deucy.” What does Deucy have to […]
Made of an abundant and inexpensive compound, the sensor could make digital cameras five times more sensitive to light, “opening up” the realms of low-light and night photography.
How do you get a million and a half people to read a blog post on tax policy? Obama digital wunderkind Teddy Goff has a simple mantra: don’t be lame.
MIT designers laid 6,500 silkworms on top of a specially constructed framework and let them do what they do. Such “biological swarms” could someday be used to “print” structures organically.
For many years I struggled to bring participation into my work. Then I learned how to use technology.
I think this whole idea owning your work seems silly to me. I feel you should flip everything.
Geoengineering or climate engineering refers to humans taking larger action to slow down climate change or even reverse it.
One reason that we know that ideas stick and spread is because they’re useful.
Mansour Ourasanah hopes so: He has joined with KitchenAid to create a prototypical countertop pod that allows grasshopper breeding, growing, and harvesting.
Writing for a unanimous Supreme Court majority, Justice Clarence Thomas argued that Myriad Genetics Inc. did not invent anything when it isolated two genes, BRCA1 and BRCA2.
Don’t be afraid of looking into your own genetic make-up.
I wonder if 50 years from now we’ll look back, and maybe Julian Assange will be the hero and J. Edgar Hoover will be the enemy of the state.
These tracks, captured by NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, are thought to have been created from sliding dry ice on the Red Planet’s Russell Crater.
An electric bicycle took off in a Prague exhibition hall yesterday and completed a 5 minute flight and safe landing.
An electric bicycle took off in a Prague exhibition hall and completed a 5 minute flight and safe landing.
Michael Faraday became the greatest experimental scientist of the nineteenth century. But that never would have happened without the right mentor.
The whole idea of mastery is you’re going to eventually become a greater master than you’re mentor.
I’m not sure where to begin on the ethics of this. On the up side, inspiring kids to learn about technology such as this could directly lead to promising careers […]
Writers and historians enjoy making the case for one or another thinker as the starting point for an epoch. Did Galileo launch the scientific revolution? Or was it Copernicus? Or […]
The people behind the Lone Signal project are inviting the public to contribute text and photo messages that they plan to beam into outer space as a beacon to aliens.
This article originally appeared in The Daily Caller. You can read the original here. I do not come to praise Edward Snowden, but to pardon him — or at least, […]
It goes by many names — puma, mountain lion — but after being all but exterminated east of the Rockies, the great cat is slowly regaining lost ground, causing concern among biologists, wildlife officials, and ordinary citizens.
Three Oxford academics will be stored after death at a cryogenic preservation facility until technology catches up.
Is the division of labor still maintained today as Adam Smith defined it?
James Webb will grant a peerless gaze at the universe the likes of which we’ve never seen.
David Simon, the creator of The Wire, says media cover of the NSA Intercepts has been hyperbolic.
If we are able to create enough wealth for everyone on the planet to live full, healthy lives, can we do so without producing catastrophic damage to the planet or to ourselves?
In a charming essay on envy, A.S. Byatt observes that it “works inwardly; concealment is part of its nature.” Envy is a festering kind of sin. It’s also the Deadly […]
If you thought the concept of people traveling between cities – or even across the nation – in a matter of minutes was just a bit of Jetsons science fiction […]