If you play a lot of video games, you might be affecting your brain structure in the process. Or, it could be that you play a lot of video games because you have an abnormal brain...
Batteries are on everybody's mind these days. As smart devices evolve to perform more complex actions, the batteries that power those devices must hold up their end of the deal an...
Let me tell you a little story about how I got my least favorite Led Zeppelin song stuck in my head for a little over three days.
When I was in middle school, I bought a cheap e...
Neil deGrasse Tyson is an author, radio host, TV host, planetarium director and of course, everyone's favorite current big thinker on life and the universe. The astrophysicist, wh...
While you were going about your daily business, maybe sitting in traffic or making dinner, a giant asteroid whizzed by your head, and you narrowly escaped the cold bite of death....
Today, Google is honoring two-time Nobel Prize-winning scientist Marie Curie with an artistic Doodle that invokes her era. In the Doodle, Curie sits at a table amidst her beakers...
Microsoft has released a video of an experimental project called the HoloDesk. The HoloDesk uses an optical see-through display and a Kinect camera to "create the illusion that us...
A team of oil cleanup experts has developed a machine that skims oil out of water at an efficiency rate unheard of within the industry. And in doing so, have won a pretty hefty pr...
Let me preface this by dispelling any thought that you might have that I know anything about the quantum physics that makes all of this possible:
I don't know anything about the...
Well this just might be the coolest thing you'll see all month.
UC Berkeley scientists have found a way to use brain activity to recreate moving images, i.e. movies. Basically,...
It's no secret that occasional breaks can serve the average worker well; focusing on a task for too long can cause an individual to lose perspective and interest. Only research co...
Dr. J. Craig Venter talked about the creation of synthetic life and its potential to solve world problems at SXSW Interactive today. Venter is credited as one of the first biologis...