A research project considers how the law should deal with technologies that blur man and machine SPEAKING at a conference organised by The Economist earlier this year, Hugh Herr, a roboticist at the Massachusetts Institute [...]

MIT researchers develop tool to assess regional risks of climate change, potential impacts on local infrastructure and planning. Climate scientists cannot attribute any single weather event — whether a drought, wildfire or extreme storm — [...]

Internet voting for American citizens is exceedingly dangerous. That’s the opinion of David Jefferson, acomputer scientist and chairman of Verified Voting, an election watchdog group based in Carlsbad, Calif. “I consider voting security to be a national-security issue,” [...]

A new manufacturing technique could help poor countries as well as rich ones EVERY summer, Seattle holds a raft race in Green Lake, a park that is the eponymous home of the water the rafts [...]

For decades, “bigger is better” has been the conventional path to efficiency in industries ranging from transportation to power generation. Food once grown on small family plots now comes overwhelmingly from factory farms. Vessels that [...]

The Coming Age of Enhancement IF a brain implant were safe and available and allowed you to operate your iPad or car using only thought, would you want one? What about an embedded device that [...]

The science behind it is closer than many people may think A dystopian society supported by genetically modified clone workers stands out among the six stories that make up the sprawling film “Cloud Atlas.” The [...]

Photovoltaic panels can be well worth the investment even if you live in a winter wonderland. Snow and solar cells aren’t mutually exclusive, according to a Michigan Technological University scientist. True, a layer of snow [...]

Study helps nations plan for protein alternatives as fisheries decline A new study co-authored by the Wildlife Conservation Society identifies countries most vulnerable to declining coral reef fisheries from a food-security perspective while providing a [...]

The United States faced down authoritarian governments on the left and right. Now it may be facing an even greater challenge from within. It is hard to know exactly when it became acceptable for U.S. [...]

In a lab in Princeton University’s ultra-sleek chemistry building, researchers toil in a modern-day hunt for an elusive power: alchemy. Throughout the centuries, alchemists tried in vain to transform common metals like iron and lead [...]

University of Adelaide applied mathematicians have extended Einstein’s theory of special relativity to work beyond the speed of light. Einstein’s theory holds that nothing could move faster than the speed of light, but Professor Jim [...]