One award was for a medical procedure that incapacitated thousands of people.
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Are we really only a moment away from "The Singularity," a technological epoch that will usher in a new era in human evolution?
The strangest thing about trying to predict the future is that our only clues lie in the past.
75 years after Erwin Schrödinger's prescient description of something like DNA, we still don't know the "laws of life."
The ten greatest ideas in science form the bedrock of modern biology, chemistry, and physics. Everyone should be familiar with them.
The second in a three-part series on the history of research on the origin of life.
These photos of scientific heroes and accomplishments inspire awe and curiosity.
Scientists have identified an alternative DNA structure described as a "twisted knot" inside living human cells. They're calling it the i-motif.
The most influential contemporary scientists and their accomplishments.
A new paper in Nature adds urgency to the fight against climate change.
About twice the size of Earth, 503b orbits its own star every six days.
The Earth is warming, and humans aren’t doing nearly enough to combat it. Could partially blocking the sunlight be the solution? It’s 2020, and not only is the Earth warmer […]
If emissions don’t go down, there’s still an option for combatting global warming. We just have to effectively dim the Sun. Global climate change is one of the most pressing long-term […]
Rosalind Franklin is most known for her role in first capturing the blueprint for life. Her efforts provided the evidence to deduce the double helix structure of DNA.
A scientific legend in his own time, James Watson was awarded the Nobel Prize for helping discover the structure of DNA. Tomorrow he will sell the medal for income at a Christie's auction.
James Watson: If people had a longer life, human beings would progress more slowly.
James Watson: I think we’re all in favor of being alive when we’re alive. And of course, it's how you define being alive.
James Watson: Up until now, machines have made our lives a lot better. I don’t thing they’ve depersonalized us so far.
Fast food workers staged a national protest in cities across the United States yesterday. Their employers may respond to the call for higher wages by speeding up the process to automate their jobs.
“In the decade since the Human Genome Project wrapped up, scientists have had a surprising amount of difficulty transforming genetic knowledge into medical treatments.”
How desperate can a city facing financial armageddon get? What’s the last resort for cities such as Detroit, wounded first by the failing American auto industry and then set bleeding […]
Neuroscientists at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory have published the first set of data which they collected by examining thin slices of a mouse's brain to create a 3D diagram.
This past weekend, I was in Springfield, Missouri for Skepticon V (“the fifth most annual Skepticon yet”). I had such a fantastic time at Skepticon IV in 2011, it was […]
“Too much experience…may restrict creativity because you know so well how things should be done that you are unable to escape to come up with new ideas.”
Private company Space X successfully launched its unmanned Falcon 9 rocket into space early Tuesday morning from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. Worldcrunch provided some fun facts […]
What happens when the complexity and magnitude of the problems facing our civilization "simply exceed our biological capabilities"?
As promised earlier, here’s a full wrap-up of my weekend attending Skepticon IV in Springfield, Missouri. I really have to give tons of credit to the organizers, who not only […]
GUEST POST BY JASON SILVA The spectacular think tank and apparel company The Imaginary Foundation states that “To Understand Is To Perceive Patterns”. This seemingly simple sentence is actually utterly profound: what it […]
n nGoogle’s attempt to make all of the world’s information searchable now extends to the human genome. As Walter Derzko of the Smart Economy blog points out, Google has just […]