Sci-Tech

Many are only just getting their heads around the idea of 3D printing but scientists at MIT are already working...

The privacy-invasive bill known as CISPA—the so-called “cybersecurity” bill—was reintroduced in February 2013. Just like last year, the bill has...

The Copyright Alert System FAQ It’s been a long time coming, but the copyright surveillance machine known as the Copyright...

It won’t retrieve the global economy from the ditch, but there is bacteria that consumes a toxic metal to produce...

Autonomous weapons’, which could be ready within a decade, pose grave risk to international law, claim activists A new global...

Believe it or not, electricity is one of the most abundant resources on the planet, the only thing that is...

Inside nanotechnologys little universe of big unknowns. A pair of scientists, sporting white clean-suits complete with helmets and face masks,...

The new Copyright Alert System (CAS), often referred to as the "six strikes anti-piracy scheme" due to its gradual increase...

This list looks at some amazing past inventions that have been lost. Some may be cause for skepticism but almost...

Has anyone ever told you that “Your eyes are beautiful?” Take a look at some amazing photos that show true...

An international team of scientists has discovered how an important natural antibiotic called dermcidin, produced by our skin when we...

Upcoming Scientific Publication: “(…) governments can and even should move beyond existent levels of public permission in order to shift...

The dawn of the Electron and it's flows of current defining technology and war. At the beginning of the 21st...

Many of us for the last umpteen years have been repeating that same phrase over and over again, "Google is...

Cell phones that can identify you by how you walk. Fingerprint scanners that work from 25 feet away. Radars that pick up...

Genetically screening our offspring to make them better people is just “responsible parenting”, claims an eminent Oxford academic, The Telegraph reports. Professor Julian...

I’ve been forcing myself to read gushing statements about the march of artificial intelligence (AI) and how, in the near...

Would you be surprised to hear that the human race is slowly becoming dumber, and dumber? Despite our advancements over...

I went out to the desert to see Eric. After 3 days with Eric I had learned more about true...

The Human Brain Project has just won a €1 billion research prize. Its director Henry Markram says the initiative will...

In a few years, the soldier, marine or special operator out on patrol might be able to record the facial...

Jack is a fifteen year old freshman in high school. He developed a paper sensor that could detect cancer in...

Paleontologists routinely resurrect and sequence DNA from woolly mammoths and other long-extinct species. Future paleontologists, or librarians, may do much...

Exclusive: Raytheon's Riot program mines social network data like a 'Google for spies', drawing ire from civil rights groups Link...

Perhaps the most notorious suppressed invention is the General Motors EV1, subject of the 2006 documentary, Who Killed the Electric...

The study, from the University College London (UCL), is the first to identify a specific DNA sequence associated with the...

This week, the group Physicians, Scientists, and Engineers for Healthy Energy (PSE) declared they would submit a petition to the...

The Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at Brookhaven National Laboratory doesn’t have anywhere near the name recognition of the Large...

Inspiration for cloaking technology has its origins in Star-Trek series and Rowling’s fantasy world of Harry Potter. In a paper...

Aircraft manufacturer Boeing have created a weapon that can knock out computers The missile is thought to be able to...

The new generation of HDTV’s and cable receivers sold to the public contain features that are not very publicized by...