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We know our ancestors cosied up to our Neanderthal cousins, but did their liaisons leave an imprint on today's languages? (full text available to subscribers)

The experience of finding patterns, especially faces, in data is a phenomenon known as pareidolia. Humans are particularly prone to these types of misidentifications, possibly because they may have provided evolutionary ...

"We're very close." In just three words, Palmer Luckey of OculusVR fame, perfectly summarized not only where virtual reality stands, but perhaps the entire neurogaming industry. Luckey was on hand to ...

Imperial College London physicists have discovered how to create matter from light - a feat thought impossible when the idea was first theorised 80 years ago.

Some people envision a grim future in which machine intelligence exceeds that of humans, but robotic technologies don't have to evolve at the expense of humans, one expert says.

The west coast of the U.S. is not only characterized by earthquakes and related myths, but also by volcanoes and also these natural phenomena became incorporated in supernatural stories. --

(Imperial College London) Imperial College London physicists have discovered how to create matter from light -- a feat thought impossible when the idea was first theorized 80 years ago.

Those of you pondering the future and wondering where your jetpack is, take heart: A human pilot flew a real jetpack for 20 glorious seconds in front of a packed crowd today.

The jetpack was demoed at the Smithsonian Magazine hosted event on Saturday May 17th, 2014 in Washington D.C..