Want to go to Mars and stay there? Everybody else wants you to. Including NASA and DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency), who are drawing up plans for the 'Hundred-Year Starship' program, which, if successful, will leave humans ...

Death and the Powers, a new opera by Tod Machover, premieres on September 24 at l’Opéra de Monte-Carlo, Monaco. Shows run on September 24th (invitation only), September 25th (8pm), and September 26th (3pm and 8pm). The opera was produced by ...

A study by the Future Analysis department of the Bundeswehr Transformation Center (a German military think tank) leaked to the Internet warns of the potential for a dire global economic crisis in as little as 15 years as a result of a ...

Amazon | Sam Harris’s first book, The End of Faith, ignited a worldwide debate about the validity of religion. In the aftermath, Harris discovered that most people—from religious fundamentalists to nonbelieving scientists—agree on one point: science has nothing to say on ...

Amazon | Do we have free will or just imagine that we do? Do we create our own destinies or are we merely machines? Can we create a brain bigger than our own? To answer these and many other provocative ...

Amazon | “Our best theories are not only truer than common sense, they make more sense than common sense,” writes physicist David Deutsch. In The Fabric of Reality, Deutsch traces what he considers the four main strands of scientific explanation: quantum ...

Within the next decade you will be able to grow all of your vegetables in a box barely larger than your refrigerator. This surprising statement is the result of a class project at Singularity University this summer. Here’s how we ...

Maggie Jack is devoted to revealing opportunities to advance public health through the application of technology and data analysis. She helped to develop a relational agent nurse built to teach patients about their medications and diagnosis before leaving the hospital ...

Researchers led by Dr. William J. Tyler, an Assistant Professor in the School of Life Sciences at Arizona State University has developed a novel technology that implements transcranial pulsed ultrasound to remotely and directly stimulate brain circuits without requiring surgery. The technology has a ...

In this graphic, the brain regions that are important to assessing the maturity of the brain are shown as spheres, with the size of the sphere representing the region's relative importance. Different sphere colors identify brain regions as members of ...

Security experts warned Thursday of a fast-spreading e-mail worm, the first large outbreak of this type in nearly a decade. The worm appears in e-mail messages with the subject “Here you have,” and contains what seems to be a link to an ...

Researchers at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory report that something resembling a cerebral cortex exists in the marine ragworm, a small creature with ancient roots that has not changed in hundreds of millions of years. (Ringeisen/European Molecular Biology Laboratory) To conduct their study, ...

A computer uses virtual blocks to build a three-dimensional approximation of the image at left that makes sense based on volume and mass. (Carnegie Mellon University) Computer vision systems can struggle to make sense of a single image, but a ...

Funded by a Department of Defense initiative dedicated to audacious challenges and intense time schedules, the Neurophotonics Research Center at Southern Methodist University will develop two-way fiber optic communication between prosthetic limbs and peripheral nerves. This connection will be key to operating ...

Daily tablets of certain B vitamins can halve the rate of brain shrinkage in elderly people who suffer from mild memory problems, an Oxford University study has shown. The two-year randomized clinical trial is the largest to study the effect of ...

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The Space Frontier Foundation (SFF) will sponsor the first TEDxMidTownNY event to discuss the continued importance of exploration with X-Prize Cofounder Anousheh Ansari and Deputy Administrator of NASA Lori Garver. TEDxMidTownNY is a local, independently organized event to be held ...

Amazon | In this remarkably illustrative and thoroughly accessible look at one of the most intriguing frontiers in science and computers, award-winning New York Times writer George Johnson reveals the fascinating world of quantum computing—the holy grail of super computers where the ...

Dmitriy Tseliakhovich is a graduate student at Caltech finishing his doctoral degree in astrophysics. His major passion in life is exploration of space and his life goal is to open space for large-scale commercial, social and scientific exploration. Dmitriy has more ...

Small conditional RNAs selectively kill cancer cells. In lab-grown human brain, prostate and bone cancer cells, small conditional RNAs (light and dark blue) bind to a targeted RNA cancer mutation (orange and green), triggering self-assembly of a long double-stranded RNA ...

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Google has introduced Google Instant. Instant is search-before-you-type. It takes what you have typed already, predicts the most likely completion and streams results in real-time for those predictions—yielding a smarter and faster search that is interactive, predictive and powerful. Here are a ...

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These mammalian cells were labeled with an antibody that reveals microtubules. A critical enzyme keeps traffic flowing in the right direction in the microtubules of nervous system cells. (Dorota Wloga/University of Georgia) A new University of Georgia study published in the ...

A scanning electron microscope image of the silver nanowires in which the cotton is dipped during the process of constructing a filter. The large fibers are cotton. (Yi Cui) Stanford researchers have developed a water-purifying filter that makes the process more ...

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Researchers from Australian National University have developed the ability to move particles  over distances of up to 1.5 meters, using a hollow laser beam to trap light-absorbing particles in a “dark core.” The particles are then moved up and down the ...