A group of physicists from the University of Kansas are concerned that there's been virtually no work done to date on developing a messa...

Mark Walker's latest piece is up in the Journal of Well-Being : " Happy-People-Pills For All." Abstract : It is argued that w...

Lou Friedman's yawn-inducing article about the 100-Year Starship Study workshop has at least one interesting snippet of information: ...

Check out the Chinese megabus: Also referred to as a mega-straddle bus, it will straddle the road allowing it to pass over the normal road ...

Beer van Geer - Project Dagaz from Quantified Self Amsterdam on Vimeo . From the Amsterdam QS Show&Tell Meetup group : Beer van Geer...

Via Singularity Hub : Never question the resolve of an artist. First off, they are crazy enough to do anything. More importantly, some of t...

It's widely known that regular exercise has metabolic and cardiovascular benefits, but until recently scientists weren't exactly sur...

DARPA is working to create a unified mathematical language for everything the military sees or hears: The armed forces are overwhelmed by ...

Seoul Commune 2026: Reconfiguring Towers in the Park, by the Korean office for architecture Mass Studies. Source . Genetic architecture i...

Says Don Tapscott: The existence of lifelong neuroplasticity is no longer in doubt. The brain runs on a "use it or lose it" motto....

According to the New York Times , voluntary wheel running with a load increases muscular adaptation and enhances gene expression in rat brai...

The value of the cosmological constant suggests that the laws of nature could not have been fine-tuned for life by an omnipotent being, say...

Okay, this is full of whoa: More amazing video here . Via BotJunkie : Back in July, we wrote about how UPenn’s GRASP Lab had taught the...

Popular Science magazine asks, " Are we giving our military machines too much power? " Even as we imagine the day when robots fin...

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Writing in Scientific American , Carl Zimmer recounts his experience at the 2009 Singularity Summit in New York City: If the term "si...

Amber Case is a cyborg anthropologist who says that technology is evolving us as we become a screen-staring, button-clicking new version of...

According to a recent paper put out by Marc G. Millis, humanity will not meet the energy requirements for an interstellar trip for at least...