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We can make a choice to say "I love this technology, this extension of my soul, of my being and I don't need to be on all the time."
Charlie Harry Francis, owner of UK-based Lick Me I'm Delicious, has created many unusual frozen treats, but this is the first that uses synthesized jellyfish proteins to produce a unique glow. Unfortunately, the stuff's not cheap.
We haven’t fundamentally made work something different than it is, but we’ve really got people to rethink how they’re doing the work itself.
The English town of Milton Keynes plans to replace its current public transportation system with 100 electric pods that customers can call and pay for using a smartphone.
How can a more realistic outlook on the 1950s shed light on the times we are living through today?
"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion."
-Albert Camus
In more creative mobile tech news: Kinsa consists of the thermometer -- which attaches to the headphone jack -- and an app that tells a user the local "health weather" as well as their temperature.
One hundred years ago, your doctor was responsible for your health. Now, thanks to technology, we're at the point where we can all be the CEO of our own health.
In Three War Stories, David Mamet explores redemption and forgiveness in the context of conflict. In The Redwing, excerpted here, a 19th Century Secret Service naval officer recounts his own transformations during the course of his service and imprisonment.
According to some experts, trans fats won't be that difficult to replace.
Music is not always the compliant hand servant, the maid servant of text. It can operate according to its own rules and it can function quite differently.
Does Ban Ki-moon see China as the next superpower? The General Secretary of the United Nations sent his warm greetings to Beijing Forum 2013, a governmental prestige project - thereby […]
"People as old as 90 who actively acquire new interests that involve learning retain their ability to learn. But if we stop taxing the nucleus basalis, it begins to dry up."
UCLA scientists have created an imaging system that can display particles as tiny as 100 nanometers via a smartphone's camera. Such a system could be useful for detecting certain viruses, such as HIV.
A new study demonstrates how a group can complement and "average out" one’s unattractive idiosyncrasies.
Researchers used zinc oxide nanorods to create a solar cell, then played music to determine the sound waves' effect on performance. Pop and rock music bumped up efficiency levels by 40 percent.
With help from NASA's Kepler space telescope, astronomers have calculated that of all the stars in our galaxy that resemble our sun, one in five hosts an Earth-sized planet at a distance that allows for liquid water at the surface.
Engineer Alex Hornstein is the creator of Tiny Pipes, a system that's turned out to be a bargain for residents of one off-the-grid Philippine island.
One company intends to shake things up by making images of our world’s surface available to all.
As the bears begin their northward migration, researchers have added a snapshot option to their live feeds and developed a smartphone app. The hope is that visitors -- both online and in person -- will capture and share images.