The Center for Free Inquiry is offering an online four week seminar on transhumanism —and I'll be teaching it alongside John Shook, CF...

I'll be guest blogging on io9 next week, from April 30 to May 3. I'm sure most of you are aware of io9, but for those of you who ...

It appears that a small cabal of the  Good Billionaires   -- those who got rich through innovation and who feel loyal to the future -- are ...

The French comic artist Jean Giraud, who also went by the name Moebius, died in Paris last month at the age of 73 after a long illness. ...

Dan Hurley has put together a comprehensive piece for the New York Times about using games like dual N-back training to improve intellige...

Another strong case for the longevity dividend! In the 20th century we added an unprecedented number of years to our lifespans, but is the...

Sentient Developments Podcast for the week of April 16, 2012 . Topics discussed in this week's episode: NASA's upcoming workshop o...

We are six years away from the next best launch opportunity to Mars—and NASA wants to be ready. To that end, they are reformulating their Ma...

There's no question that we need to seriously consider harvesting the sun's energy in space with massive solar panels. The big ques...

Looking to communicate with your favorite bonobo, but you just don't know how? Well, worry no more: Ken Schweller of the Iowa Great Ap...

There's an article making the rounds from the American Chemical Society asking, " Could "advanced" dinosaurs rule other p...

Not that you'd ever want to get this sort of message, but the AngelMed Guardian, an implantable medical device that's currently unde...

Astronomer Geoff Marcy is famous for discovering 70 of the first 100 exoplanets and the first system of planets around a sun-like star. But ...

True Skin will be a 12-minute short film scheduled for release sometime later this year.

Nature has posted an interview with Elon Musk, SpaceX's chief executive and chief technology officer. Unlike so many people these days,...

Empathy, cooperation, fairness and reciprocity -- caring about the well-being of others seems like a very human trait. But Frans de Waal s...

Lucy McRae is an artist who straddles the worlds of fashion, technology and the body. Trained as a classical ballerina and architect, her ...

The issue of gender selection has once again made an appearance in the Canadian media. Rajendra Kale, an interim editor of the Canadian Medi...

Sentient Developments Podcast for the week of April 9, 2012 . Topics discussed in this week's episode: My recap of the Moral Brain con...

Philosopher Nick Bostrom has penned a new article about artificial superintelligence: " The Superintelligent Will: Motivation and Instr...