There’s something eerily dystopian about the lives of cells. Like the young heroes in popular teen novels, cells are born into stringent organ “societies,” destined to perform specific roles preordained...

You live and then you die and then you rot in a hole—or so say the elites, with their glasses, and their PhDs in neuroscience. This bummer reality has never appealed much to Americans, 72 percent of whom believe in some kind of afterlife. It’s a comparatively…

After a disappointing clinical trial in 2015, scientists are trying anew to mend failing hearts with a gene.

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For the first time, MIT scientists have identified distinct brain wave patterns related to different kinds of learning. These neural signatures might someday be enhanced to improve how we learn both motor skills and facts.

By reimagining the kinks and folds of origami as atoms in a lattice, researchers are uncovering strange behavior hiding in simple structures.

It would also produce eight times as much power as a hydrogen bomb.

Opinion: The world is no longer dominated by nations. We're in a non-state, net-state era.

They will never sit on your desk, and they will most certainly never fit in your pocket. Today, they’re fragile, and need to be kept at temperatures close to absolute zero. Quantum computers aren’t much like the desktop PCs we’re all so familiar with—they’re…

The Alphabet unit says it expects to allow passengers to ride in truly driverless cars in its tests within the next few months.

A leading researcher says he’s working on such a model but can’t get funding.

Peter Diamandis recently interviewed Ray Kurzweil at the Googleplex for a 90-minute webinar on disruptive and dangerous ideas. Watch and read to learn more!

IBM Q research has built and tested an operational 50 qubit prototype processor, a huge leap up from its previous record of 17 qubits.

Back in July, satellite images showed an iceberg bigger than the state of Delaware calving and drifting away from Antarctica’s Larsen C ice shelf. Well, it’s summertime now in Antarctica, which means scientists are finally able to view this behemoth from…

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Worries about the future of work amid automation and a shortage of decent-paying jobs are spurring interest in so-called Universal Basic Income.

Parkour! That’s what we should all be devoting our combined robotics expertise towards. There’s no nobler human pursuit, so of course we should create a robot that can master the…