A team of Swedish scientists have created a nanoparticle capable of delivering non-toxic cancer-treatment drugs directly to tumors in the body which are biodegradable and traceable.

While diets high in saturated fats are known to increase cholesterol levels, exactly how cholesterol influences heart disease remains to be fully understood, say scientists.

Deborah Persaud of Johns Hopkins University has announced to the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections that a patient under her care has been cured of HIV infection.

There has been much chatter recently about the new found potential of "big data". Google NGram for example, tracks usage of words in books and Google Flu Trends does what it says on the […]

While scientists are far from being able to regenerate humans limbs, they are gaining a better understanding of how this complex process takes place in a host of different species.

"Give us a chance," the company and its employees were saying, and "we’ll show you what we can do. And, by golly, they did."

The workforce at GM was pretty disheartened when the company hit hard times during the recent recession. And yet, GM employees wanted to prove to everybody that they could design, […]

A new global warming study uses data going back to the end of the last ice age to demonstrate that the world is warmer now than at almost any other time since.

How can the United States collectively face rising health care costs, a broken healthcare system, and public health epidemics such as obesity and diabetes? Three top medical innovators offer solutions. 

Aromatherapists rejoice: There's now hard evidence showing that being exposed to the scent of nature -- specifically trees and plants -- is almost as good for the body as being outside.

As more institutions take advantage of improved tracking methods, all kinds of unusual information is being sold to data brokers, and there's still not a whole lot you can do about it.

The dual shockwaves of accelerating advances in space accessibility due to miniaturization and private sector competition have put NewSpace in the midst of a transformation.

Consider one last autobiographical note before I answer the question: “How do we avoid the Sartre Fallacy?” I conducted an independent study my senior year that focused on biases and […]

Solar-powered calculators have been around for decades, but scientists have yet to come up with a smartphone equivalent. However, one company is working on a solar cell that could extend existing battery life.

The SOPA movement shows us how traditional power structures are being turned on their head to create a future that is significantly more democratized, distributed and universal.

Elizabeth Stark describes how Internet activism stopped legislation such as SOPA, which she saw as a threat to online freedom.

If the Fed still has room to juice the economy without threatening price stability, why doesn’t it? 

German researchers put Android phones in the freezer for an hour in an attempt to get around their encryption systems and access sensitive data. It worked.

Charles Mrray designed this quiz to have a salutary effect on bringing to people’s attention the degree to which they live in a bubble that seals them off from an […]

Charles Murray has designed a quiz he hopes will have "a salutary effect on bringing to people’s attention the degree to which they live in a bubble that seals them off from an awful lot of their fellow American citizens."