[breyn-i-keyn] Brainstorming on a Higher Level
Believe it or not, your robots may soon be lying to you. But you don’t have to take our word for it; Georgia Tech researchers, with funding from the Office of Naval Research, have been toying with algorithms that allow a robot to determine whether or not it wishes to deceive another robot or human, […]
Standard Issue Mind Control DARPA wants ultrasound-enhanced helmets that allow soldiers to stimulate certain regions of their brains.
DARPA has been trying to crawl inside the minds of soldiers for a while now, but a new ultrasound technology could let them get deeper inside than ever. Working under a DARPA grant, a researcher at Arizona […]
Colonies of embryonic stem cells via University of Wisconsin-Madison
The push-pull between the Obama administration and U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth over the government’s funding of embryonic stem cell research has swung back the other way, at least temporarily lifting the temporary injunction blocking federal funding for embryonic stem cell research that was issued last […]
What the Government Doesn’t Want You to Know
Death-ray bombs, giant flamethrowers, unclassified airfields, and more of history’s deepest military secrets
It’s hard to look at military spending without wondering what’s behind the scenes.. For instance, in this month’s issue of Popular Science, we investigate what exactly the Pentagon is getting for the billion […]
Image via Salon
Over the last few years, sound science has been under attack in disciplines focusing on everything from climate to vaccines. Yesterday, I excerpted an interview with a man whom many consider to be a champion of sound science — Simon Singh deftly articulated the public relations crisis science faces in the modern age. […]
Archaeologists are still debating whether or not the peoples who inhabited the Amazon before the Europeans arrived built complex settlements and roads. The debate could play a role in the Amazon’s future.
No more talking Flash trash: the program that Steve Jobs so seems to revile appears to be good-to-go for use for apps on the iPhone and Apple’s other mobile devices.
NASA is designing a pair of robotic probes to keep tabs on how the planet is changing and to help forecasters predict natural disasters, such as volcanic eruptions, earthquakes and landslides.
If a volcano with the explosive power of 600,000 Hiroshima atomic bombs blew up on a planet 30 light-years away, would we notice?
At least eight new kinds of Earth’s earliest animals from the mysterious and controversial Cambrian Explosion have been discovered in a unexpected section of ancient rock 30 miles from the famous Burgess Shale of Canada. The discovery suggests such old, rare fossils are more common than previously thought.
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