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Will moving money to digital devices widen the digital divide or provide a way for everyone to participate in a new economy that will run on exciting new digital innovations?
How soon until you can roll up your computer screen like a newspaper? Two recent developments will make computer screens and e-reading devices flexible enough to bend.
Think the private sector has a monopoly on innovation and government is just hopeless bureaucracy? Not DARPA. It's the agency that invented the Internet and flies at Mach 20.
Researchers at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, Scotland, are developing a suite of satellites armed with powerful lasers to change the course of asteroids that threaten Earth.
The amino acids that can be found inside comets, which are also the building blocks of life, sustain the heat and pressure of an impact, say researchers, and even form peptide bonds.
The super-Earths discovered by NASA's Kepler mission may be better at supporting life than Earth itself, says the Harvard astronomer who coined the term super-Earth.
When density perturbations in space cause it to collapse, black holes are created in a range of sizes. Some are extremely small and could pass straight through the Earth.
Facebook says employers who request applicants' passwords will face 'unanticipated legal challenges'. What does that mean, exactly? Would you hand your password over for a job?
No matter the job, institutions increasingly require applicants to maintain an online presence, whether than means managing content, tweaking a website's design or writing code in earnest.
Email overload is linked to decreased productivity, an inability to focus on important tasks, even emotional and physical stress. Activity streams, a potential alternative, are gaining popularity.
By turning super computers loose on massive amounts of data, companies are able to make more informed decisions, but making decisions based on computer output can be humbling.
PayPal is coming to a store near you. In fact, PayPal may be building a store near you. The online payment company wants to bring its ideas to physical stores, changing how we use money.
Embellished products created by Western companies cannot survive a globalized market where countries like India and China create alternatives for their citizens at a fraction of the price.
Financial expert Mohamed El-Erian says the American economic recovery is underway but still too fragile to sustain rapid growth. Educating workers will be a key source of growth.
As President Obama travels to South Korea, matters of the state will be on hand. But what about the people living in North Korea? Their treatment is at once frightening and bizarre.
"We can have huge wealth in the hands of a relatively few people or we can have a democracy. But we can’t have both," said Louis Brandeis. Today, income inequality is an all time high.
Despite dire predictions of the future, brought on quite naturally by the protracted recession, professor Philip Auerswald believes the world is headed for epic prosperity. Here's why...
Reflecting on the care she gave her husband after a massive stroke, author Diane Ackerman writes a graceful and informative piece on how the brain functions when in love.
York College behavioral scientist Robert Duncan addresses whether researchers have successfully located consciousness in the brain's biology and what that might mean.
Researchers found that men who drank vodka cranberries performed better on standard creativity tests than those who didn't. If you want to think differently, getting tipsy might help.