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Technology has always ridden far out ahead of the laws that govern it. As the pace accelerates, that gap may widen. The US Patent Office issued the first patent on a gene thirty years ago. Tens of thousands of patents la...

A suspicious email attack leads to...nothing? Government email spying in the United States may have all the headlines, but America hardly has a monopoly on privacy violations. Google revealed a massive phishing scheme ag...

Just as bats use sound to navigate, an app now being developed could help you find your way around using sound alone

They look less silly than Google Glass. Less silly than those toe-shoes too, actually. Fitness trackers are, slowly but surely, getting better. First there was the Fitbit (I mean, the Fitbit is still wildly popular, but ...

Today, NASA named a group of eight new astronauts to its corps. These people pursued careers that put them in the direction of becoming astronauts. But there was no guarantee they’d make it; more than 6,100 people appl...

A new zone of crust-swallowing geological faults seems to be opening in the Atlantic - the vast ocean may have "caught" subduction from the dying Mediterranean

The project aims to spread affordable Internet access to even the most remote regions. Last July, the United Nations' Human Rights Council declared that Internet access was a basic human right. Tim Berners-Lee, creator o...

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New elevator technology pushes skyscrapers to new heights. What's one of the most important limits to the heights of skyscrapers? How far up an elevator can go. The way elevators are currently made, they can only be abou...

Two Bit Circus is producing the STEAM Carnival, a hands-on event featuring "robots, fire, and lasers to inspire young inventors in science, technology, engineering, art, and math." Doesn't that sound lovely?

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If we want to progress towards a theory of everything, we need to understand how space and time fit together - if they do at all, says Anil Ananthaswamy (full text available to subscribers)

William Blake's death mask (with EEG) next to a Cyberman's head and a gargoyle: a new exhibition crosses the lines between humans and the things we make

MIT builds a virtual person to help people practice talking to other people, which already sounds like an awkward situation. If you think you're awkward in social situations, and would like the solution to that problem t...

This gloriously freakish fringe tree frog looks like it belongs in a Hayao Miyazaki fantasy, but in fact it lives in a safe haven that's almost as magical

Stephen Hawking's considered decision to support an academic boycott of Israeli institutions should not be derided, says Jonathan Rosenhead

Eben Bayer's company makes packaging from agricultural waste and the mycelium of mushrooms - he says the next step is to make building materials this way