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As Neil deGrasse Tyson said, we spend the first year of a child's life teaching him or her to walk and talk, "and the rest of their lives telling them to shut up and sit down."
A single Eyefly 3D protector contains 500,000 tiny lenses -- each the size of a single pixel -- that create the illusion of depth by sending separate display data to each eye.
Harvard Business School’s Robert Steven Kaplan argues in his new book, What You're Really Meant to Do: A Roadmap for Reaching Your Unique Potential, that success is not about meeting someone else's definition, but reaching your potential by defining it on your own terms.
Brothers Ryder and Judd Kessler designed the DipJar to enable even plastic-only customers to leave something for good counter service.
The nano-cinematographers (that's right, we just made up that word) used a scanning tunneling microscope to move thousands of molecules and make a movie so small it can be seen only when you magnify it 100 million times.
Lancaster University researchers have created software that, when used in combination with a screen, can detect the gazes of up to 14 passersby and change advertisements accordingly.
Technological innovations can further disrupt retailing by taking aim at the product itself, rather than the point of sale.
In the second installment of our “8 Trends That Will Shape Humanity” series, we look at the rise of the "city state" and how the coming consolidation of humanity into cities will change life for residents of these massive urban hubs.
Unlike other types of paper currently on the market, this version's ultra-thin chips are embedded using a laser, making it much more versatile for banknotes and other important printed media.
Reaching your unique potential involves process, or specific steps that are required to take action.
Or, more specifically, an insect's compound eye: Researchers built an array of individual lenses and detectors and then bent it into a hemispherical shape. The result is a scalable system that could surpass anything found in nature.
Science works because scientists form communities and traditions based not on a common set of methods, but a common set of ethical principles.
Once you know what the laws of nature are, another kind of question unfolds itself which is why are those the laws and not other laws.
Located 1,200 light-years from here, in the northern constellation Lyra, NASA's Kepler spacecraft has discovered two planets whose size and orbits make them the exoplanets most similar to Earth yet.
The day marked the first time a commercial plane broke the sound barrier since the supersonic Concorde was retired in 2003. Soon, Virgin's craft will be travelling faster than the Concorde.
The explosion of a meteor above the Russian city of Chelyabinsk in mid-February, while sparing lives and damage to the city, served as a stark reminder of Earth's vulnerability to asteroids.
The idea of Big Brother government snooping on us, listening in on our phone calls, intercepting our e mails, watching us with all kinds of surveillance devices, offends most […]
Today we explore books on biology, recommended by our experts, editors and readers.
No myth about art and artists abides as pervasively as that of Vincent Van Gogh, the mad genius. To mark the grand reopening of the renovated Van Gogh Museum in […]
If we are to ever reach beyond our own planet, possibly colonizing asteroids and Jupiter's moon Europa, we need a better propellant system. Rocket scientists recommend nuclear power.