New wearable devices like Google's Project Glass and forthcoming smart watches will open community businesses by advertising directly to people who already like their products. 

A team of University of Michigan researchers are experimenting with 145 differently shaped nanoparticles in an attempt to create new materials that can be engineered on the smallest level. 

The military's experimental research and development department and the National Institutes of Health will fund a project that mimics human organs on a single computer chip.

A new method for extracting energy from solar panels will allow expensive silicon semiconductors to be replaced by much cheaper metals, making the energy source more cost effective. 

By analyzing tweets tagged with GPS location data, researchers were able to track the spread of flu symptoms across space and time, accurately predicting when people would fall ill.

There may be evidence of super-advanced civilizations in other galaxies who have learned to control the entire energy output of their parent star. And we could start looking for them. 

Their are other places in the solar system which might harbor life, say astronomers. Given probable budget cuts, some scientists are criticizing NASA's singular focus on the Red Planet. 

Using NASA's Kepler space telescope, astronomers have found an alien solar system that exhibits the same structure as ours, with planets rotating on a single plane around their parent star. 

SETI's new director Gerry Harp wants to see more investment in high-risk, high-reward science. In a recent interview, he discussed how the search for aliens is advancing rapidly.

By the year 2020, the world's leading maker of wireless network equipment estimates that machines will interface with other machines more often than they will interact with humans.

The best mobile devices of tomorrow will "embed" your identity, says Rebekah Cox, product designer at Quora and formerly of Facebook. Identity, she says, comes down to communication. 

The problem of having too much information at your fingertips was a problem the poet and novelist Percy Shelley was already aware of by the 19th century. He proposed a solution...

Philosophy professor Santiago Zabala argues that using online identities to mediate our communication is a threat to our autonomy, but what is the best way to get our liberty back?

A British man convicted of sending a "menacing" Tweet has been exonerated by appealing to a law passed in 1935. How will our legal system ever accommodate the speed of technology? 

According to the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), food production will need to increase at least 50 percent in order to meet the demand of a vastly growing world population.

Reportedly, last May there was a shoot-out between U.S. and Honduran anti-narcotics agents and traffickers. Residents were "infuriated" about the presence of U.S. and Honduran police, and set out to push local drug traffickers out of their communities. 

Payday Loans are a trap of high interest loans for people who have a hard time repaying what they borrow. Oklahoma, Missouri and Washington are the states with the most storefronts that lure borrowers. 

The United States Defense Department has been beckoned by the Pentagon to clearly define its strategy in the Pacific towards Asia. 

President Obama's new healthcare law is good news for the 30 million people who will have access to health insurance. However, health experts worry if the medical profession industry will be prepared to meet the demand.

Given the increasing influence that neuroscientific explanations have over our justice system, we must insist on improving scientific literacy so that the foundations of justice are upheld.