Technology

A team of researchers have developed a gene regulation method that enables thought-specific brainwaves to control the conversion of genes into proteins - gene expression. The authors took their cue…

Bras have come a long way in 100 years. Credit: EPA/HO By Deirdre McGhee, University of Wollongong This year marks the 100-year anniversary of the first bra patent. Amazingly for the time – 1914 –…

Tiny biobots - cyborg cockroaches - can trace the source of a sound and home in on it. But don't fear, an invisible fence keeps them in their assigned area, which would be disaster areas to find…

Words are so 20th century. The 21st century could belong to brains communicating directly with each other. Researchers have successfully replicated a direct brain-to-brain connection between pairs of…

No need to say goodbye to the print book. Amy Johansson/Shutterstock By Andrew Prescott, King's College London “Analog” and “digital” are the two polar opposites of our modern world. The word “analog…

Like coffee but your liberal guilt won't let you enjoy it if the energy to heat the water might have come from natural gas or nuclear energy? There may be hope for the future. Researchers at…

via: The Telegraph By Jane Palmer, Genetic Literacy Project Sometimes I think I’ve outsourced my consciousness to Google. Can’t remember something? Google it. Want to remember something? Google Doc…

Imagine a site where the lead developer supported the Discovery Institute, the Tea Party, the Mitt Romney campaign, Greenpeace, Joe Mercola, Just Label It, and various other political activist and…

Modern biology has a problem - how to find meaning in the rising oceans of genomic data, such as the reams of cancer mutations that genome-wide studies are publishing every week. The challenge is…

William Murphy/flickr  By: Alexander Hellemans, Inside Science (Inside Science) -- Researchers around the world are studying how to destroy chemical and biological warfare agents without anyone…