Well, Milan M. Ćirković and Richard B. Cathcart think it's a distinct possibility. In fact, it may even (partly) explain the Great Sile...

David Brin is a Sentient Developments guest blogger. Salon Magazine asked to publish as a main article an updated version of my essay about ...

SETI founder Frank Drake wants to take the search for extraterrestrial intelligence to the next level by implementing a process called grav...

It looks like John Cassidy's latest book, How Markets Fail: The Logic of Economic Calamities , is worth checking out. According to Cassi...

With the search and rescue efforts officially called off in Haiti, the time has come for reconstruction. But with nearly 200,000 dead and on...

Anthony Atala's state-of-the-art lab grows human organs -- from muscles to blood vessels to bladders and more. At TEDMED, Atala shows f...

News that the International Olympic Committee is considering mandatory gender testing and therapies to 'treat' intersex athletes is...

The New York Times is reporting that a panel of medical experts convened by the International Olympic Committee is recommending that the i...

Dan Buettner gives a TED talk about the practical things we can do today to extend our healthy lifespans. Nothing too radical or out-of-the...

This is a remarkable video that clearly shows a dog reacting to an earthquake just seconds before it hits.

I'm still reeling from the rather anticlimactic finish to the recent Climate Change Conference held in Copenhagen. Like so many others,...

Russell Blackford is a guest blogger for Sentient Developments. Introduction The current (December 2009) issue of The Journal of Medical Eth...

Russell Blackford is a guest blogger for Sentient Developments. This post is cross-posted at Sentient Developments and Metamagician and the ...

Great science fiction films are few and far between, so it was with great anticipation that I went to see Avatar on opening night. I had bee...

From the four corners of the web: When robots have feelings their rights will need protection, too | Peter Singer and Agata Sagan If, as ...

Here are my favorite Sentient Development s articles from the past year: Transhumanism and the 'Intelligence Principle' The top 10 e...

A hearty thank you goes out to all the guest bloggers who contributed to Sentient Developments in 2009. Here are my favorite of their artic...

Linda MacDonald Glenn is guest blogging this month . I had the pleasure of listening to Joann Kuchera-Morin from Allosphere at the BioPoliti...

From the four corners of the web: The Scientific Tragedy of Climategate | Reason Magazine Can climate change science recover from the damag...

Tomas Saraceno, Galaxies Forming along Filaments, Like Droplets along the Strands of a Spider’s Web (2008)