Listen to a recording of students' excoriating an NSA recruiter.

Scientists say their new storage method -- which consists of encoding data on self-assembled nanostructures in fused quartz using a very fast laser -- could preserve immense amounts of data long after human civilization has ended.

TouchKeys is a sensor-based system that enables a pianist to slide and wiggle their fingers just like a guitarist to produce the same types of sound effects. Unlike other systems, this one preserves the original keyboard design.

The regenerative abilities of flatworms allow them to regrow their memories.

It might look similar to a material, developed by an engineer at North Carolina State University, that received high praise from attendees at a recent conference.

Designed at Chicago's Toyota Technological Institute, it can help a car figure out its location even when it's under a bridge or going through a tunnel...a useful skill in the coming driverless age.

Why open access makes no sense (with a satirical slant). 

It is so hot in Death Valley that you can fry an egg outside using nothing but the sun and a skillet. 

Participants at a recent two-day event at Stanford University followed the hackathon model to come up with business solutions in the growing field of food innovation.

If degree-of-blindness is measurable (which it is), then researchers should, in fact, measure it and disclose it as part of any study that's purported to be "blinded."

Under what circumstances would I agree to disagree?

Two designers are using unlikely materials -- the shell of a common water pest and a bio-ethanol waste product -- to create a new generation of bioplastics.

I had found a new way to express myself, and it was with words. 

Psychiatry's bible is also its worst enemy.

The parents have to go well outside of their comfort zone. 

We live in a curious moment when medical progress is making it possible to eliminate many conditions exactly as social progress is making it possible to celebrate them. 

The premise of many business books is to boldly go where no business book has ever gone before, to gather more data, to interview more executives, to read more articles […]

If everybody could fly the inability to fly would become a disability. 

Neon and fluorescent lighting. Radio. Electric motors. Robotics. These are just a few of the inventions of the Serbian engineer Nikola Tesla that he never got credit for during his lifetime. 

Should steroid use be considered, as the philosopher Alva Noe has argued, a natural extension of our technological lives?