I've started to do something I once swore I'd never do: I'm hittin' the energy drinks. I realize it's not the healthies...

There's a new book by Andy Clark worth checking out: Supersizing the Mind: Embodiment, Action and Cognitive Extension . This will be of ...

Earlier last week, renowned futurist Ray Kurzweil and Xprize founder Peter Diamandis officially announced the launching of The Singularity U...

One of my readers recently made the comment on my recent protopanpsychism re-post: "...it is not clear what the evolutionary advantage...

At TED 2009, Juan Enriquez talked about the new human species emerging before our eyes. Thanks to an array of biological advances and our g...

In June of 2008, The Gobal Spiral published a special issue about transhumanism . This edition was guest edited by Hava Tirosh-Samuelson, ...

It's been nearly 50 years since scientists first started scanning the heavens for radio signals that would indicate the presence of inte...

Despite grandiose and cocksure proclamations to the contrary, consciousness is still a hard problem in science. Aside from (currently) untes...

The latest issue of Sports Technology (subscription required) spotlights recent developments that seek to close the gap between able-bodied...

Philosophers Julian Savulescu and Nick Bostrom, along with gerontologist Aubrey de Grey, have declared a war on aging . At the recent 2009 W...

This is an amazing CGI visualization of how DNA works. It also serves as proof-of-concept for molecular nanotechnology. It shows animations ...

Like a lot of people last week, I was shocked to find out that Nadya Suleman, the mother of the octuplets born last week in Los Angeles, alr...

Each one of Lumigram ’s Lumitop fiber optic tops is powered by a compact battery pack connected to a bright LED light source. Via Technabob ...

Transhumanist and Accelerating Future blogger Michael Anissimov has posted a thought-provoking article about universal mind uploading and ...

This is the ad that is currently appearing on some Toronto buses. Congratulations go out to the Toronto Transhumanist Association 's ver...

Our conceptions of intelligence certainly aren't what they used to be -- and they're continuing to evolve. Prior to the advent of co...

A robot developed by roboticists at the University of Pennsylvania is comprised of modules that can recognize each other. This video shows h...

This year marks the 150th anniversary of the publication of On the Origin of Species and the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin’s birth. T...

'Veggie Love': PETA's Banned Super Bowl Ad PETA's ad—which features a bevy of beauties who are powerless to resist the tempt...

A new study by researchers at NYU Langone Medical Center indicates that consumers are more interested in using genetic technologies to scree...