In 2004, eight neuroscientists felt it was too soon for a definition of consciousness. They wrote an apology in “Human…
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By JOHN HEILPRIN The search is all but over for a subatomic particle that is a crucial building block of…
A superfast black hole nearly 60 million light-years away appears to be pushing the ultimate speed limit of the universe,…
In Star Trek, the Borg is a menacing race of cybernetically-enhanced beings who conquer other races and assimilate them. They…
A flawed gene implicated in Parkinson’s disease lets proteins build up dangerously in key brain cells, according to a study…
Activist Post Flowers’ methods of communicating are at least as sophisticated as any devised by an advertising agency, according to…
Charles Q. Choi io9.com Temporary electronic tattoos could soon help people fly drones with only thought and talk seemingly telepathically…
The Human Brain Project has just won a €1 billion research prize. Its director Henry Markram says the initiative will…
Printing blobs of human embryonic stem cells is the latest step towards being able to grow organs on demand. Researchers…
South Korea has embarked on the development of a preliminary concept design for a fusion power demonstration reactor in collaboration…
New protocol advances solutions for more efficient teleportation – the transport of quantum information at the speed of light. For…
Researchers have proposed a method for cooling trapped antihydrogen which they believe could provide ‘a major experimental advantage’ and help…
Russian researchers at the Vostok station in Antarctica pose for a picture after reaching Lake Vostok in February 2012. Scientists…
In a new study, physicists have shown that surrounding a magnetic source with a magnetic shell can enhance the magnetic…
The future feast is laid out around a cool white room at Eindhoven’s University of Technology . There is a…
Early natural philosophers held that life on the earth is fundamentally dichotomous: all living things are either animals or plants.…
By David Icke The figures are fantastic. Some eight million people die every year from cancer worldwide, more than half…
Scientists trying to unravel the mystery of life’s origins have been looking at it the wrong way, a new study…