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For better or worse, the $4 billion purchase of Lucasfilm gets Disney the rights to Star Wars. Disney has bought Star Wars. In a just-announced deal for $4 billion, the company picked up Lucasfilm, the production company...

How fast neurons work seems to determine how we perceive time, and could hint at how things go wrong in stressful situations

It's sleek. It's huge. And it's controlled by an iMac. It's the yacht that Steve Jobs commissioned before his death, and it was just unveiled in the Netherlands this week. In true Steve Jobs fashion, the yacht, called Ve...

In Louder than Words, Benjamin Bergen explains how we form images and sensations in our mind every time we hear a word, helping us to extract meaning

Women who smoke into middle age lose 10 years of life, confirming they suffer the same ill effects as male smokers

Women who smoke into middle age lose 10 years of life, confirming they suffer the same ill effects as male smokers

Tired of roaming around the car park in search of a space? Now there's an app that can let your car do it – without you in the car.

The lesson of Sandy is the same as those of the Eurozone crisis and events such as the Egyptian revolution: complex systems play by their own rules

A new method for spotting a delicate quantum link among so many photons could find uses in deciphering encrypted communications

Hurricane Sandy caused transformers to explode, and floods are putting the New York subway through the worst disaster in its 108-year history

Halloween means time for gore! Blood, bones, brains and more! Severed fingers, severed toes, eyeballs and organs galore! But how accurate are all these loose bits of human anatomy in our front yards, costumes and punch b...

A radar image reveals a strong eyewall at Sandy's core, offering further proof of the storm's intensity

In a giant aquarium in Florida, scientists are creating 150 MPH hurricanes About two years ago, Brian Haus, the chair of the Division of Applied Marine Physics at the University of Miami, was studying storms in the weste...

One of the greatest barriers preventing exploitation of nanotubes may have been overcome thanks to some clever self-organising chemistry

Geneva, 30 October 2012. On 6 November at 18:00, Gilles Jobin[1], first winner of the Collide@CERN Geneva prize[2], will be talking about his Collide@CERN residency and performing extracts of movements generated during h...

I am pleased to announce the release of Singularity Hub’s recent interview with Ray Kurzweil below.  The interview with Kurzweil focused at first on his new book to be released November 13 “How to Create ...

Singularity Hub’s Keith Kleiner interviews Ray Kurzweil about his new book, How to Create a Mind: The Secret of Human Thought Revealed. For the full version, become a member on Singularity Hub! ://singularityhub.c...