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Biologists debate adding a controversial new aspect to the understanding of evolution.

The DOOR CLOSE button on your elevator is there only to make you feel better since it doesn’t actually work.

A noted economist and futurist Robin Hanson sees a civilization of brain simulations or “ems” rising within the next 100 years.

As if the north pole of Saturn weren’t weird enough already. “Cassini is different — it’s a mission of enormous scope and is being conducted in grand style. It is much more sophisticated […]

The thinking behind Turing Machines and “universal systems,” is being extended to build a new kind of physics. “Constructor Theory,” is being developed by David Deutsch and Chiara Marletto to better explain life. It even suggests why morality arose. 

A new study looks at our comfort in being around other people as a byproduct of evolution.

Physicists discover strikingly similar structures in human cells and neutron stars.

As driverless cars gain increasing acceptance among the public, what social values, industries, and activities will be displaced, or even made as obsolete as car ownership itself?

Stanford scientists create technology that could help severely paralyzed people communicate.

A researcher is experimenting with an artificial hippocampus to learn how to strengthen and store memories.l 

Actors try to make sense out of an AI-written screenplay in the movie Sunspring.

Are you a maverick or are you a mouse? Author Julian Guthrie brings us one of the great entrepreneurial adventure stories of our time in ‘How to Make a Spaceship’.

Amazon announces a new type of smart brick-and-mortar shopping with no checkouts.

Would you be cryo-preserved, knowing that if you survived, you would wake up hundreds of years later?   

When we asked Bill Nye the Science Guy if he thinks we are living in a computer-generated simulation, he turned to some basic scientific principles to justify his answer.

Only in 1992 was science able to calculate the remotest part of the ocean

Yale researchers create a groundbreaking device that utilizes two key concepts in quantum physics.

Researchers discover the ways in which spiders tune and play their webs as a way to control their worlds.

Apple’s removal of the iPhones 3.4 mm headphone jack is causing an uproar as part of technology’s inexorable march forward.

New research on student learning with technology and computers.

If you were betting on LIGO, you bet wrong. Just like everybody else. “‘Topology is destiny,’ he said, and put the drawers on. One leg at a time.” –Neal Stephenson One […]

Want the speed of light, the fine-structure constant or others to change? There’s a new obstacle to overcome. “The mystery about α is actually a double mystery. The first mystery — the […]

How far are you willing to trust technology? Make a call, share a photo, find a good restaurant, pay a bill, vacuum the floor? But, will you trust autonomous systems with your life and the life others? Autonomous vehicles will be making decisions for us at 60mph and more — the question facing us may no longer be technological but social. How much do you trust a robot?

Something isn’t right about the Universe without something extra. So why can’t scientists agree on what that “extra” thing is? “All we know so far is what doesn’t work.” –Richard Feynman […]

Rob Bell examines the two responses to our rapidly changing world, covering politics, the internet, tribalism and race relations.

And even with them all in place, what do we still not know? “The joy of life consists in the exercise of one’s energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of […]

No one is right 100% of the time. Even the greatest genius of all. “The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything.” –Theodore Roosevelt […]

For years we’ve wondered if educational programs are the reason for the disparity between women and men in engineering, but what if there’s another reason?

A live-blog event happened a week ago, but you can catch the entire thing anew here, right now! “We have never observed infinity in nature. Whenever you have infinities in […]

The advertising legend Ryan Holiday, who maintains a humble profile, speaks to the difference between confidence and ego, exposing the latter as a thin veneer concealing weakness.