More than 60 years after her death, Lacks' genetic material can no longer be used by researchers without family consent. Is the same true for the rest of us? Not exactly.

Background: I came across a remarkable story, from some years ago, where someone was rather upset with Canadian game developer Bioware for including an optional homosexual element in a, now […]

For those of us who think there's something not quite right about playing "Pac Man" on a PC, there's San Francisco's All You Can Arcade subscription service, which delivers machines to homes and businesses for a monthly $75 fee.

Renowned psychologist and emotion-guru Paul Ekman describes how introducing conscious awareness to facial expressions can help one override and control their emotions.

Theoretical Physicist Lawrence Krauss explains the different types of nothing. Or something.

At NASA the waste management engineers are incredibly important to the entire mission, says Mary Roach.

Neuroscientist David Eagleman explains how your brain perceives time (retrospectively).

Theoretical Physicist Lee Smolin argues that the fundamental laws of physics are subject to evolutionary pressures akin to natural selection.

A Quebec designer set up an installation that combines a standard "For Rent" sign with a surveillance camera, computer software, and a motorized track.

Bioethicist Paul Root Wolpe argues that the Singularity envisioned by Ray Kurzweil isn't quite right.

Elon Musk released the conceptual design for his Hyperloop passenger transport capsule.

A few months ago I posted a piece which has become my most popular blog post by quite a landslide.The postcovered various techniques for learning and looked at the empirical […]

When Fast Company came out with its 96 lessons for 2013 from leaders across the business spectrum, I expected to find a stereotypical list of lifestyle changes and recommendations for […]

     Ideology often drives people to madness. History is full of frightening examples. The most recent may be California Congressman Dana Rohrabacher, a member of the House Science Committee, which […]

Adding to international pressure on Russia is the country's ambition to host international sporting and business events, such as the 2014 Olympics in Sochi.

Much of the NSA's data collection efforts simply work to skim private information from the vast consumer caches held by corporations like Facebook, Google, and Amazon.

Hon. Shira A Scheindlin has struck major blow to Michael Bloomberg's and Ray Kelly's racist and megalomaniacal "Stop and Frisk" policy. Bloomberg's and Kelly's policy acts in direct opposition to both the progress of our culture and of the laws they have sworn to uphold.

A team of researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, conclude that rising temperatures and wetter seasons will aggravate regions across the world already prone to conflict.

Someone might say—and libertarians skeptics often do—that classes in philosophy and literature are given a quite an arbitrarily inflated value by according them credit. Do away with the credit system […]