Strange carbon-based life forms may revolutionize the way we gather and sort information. Their colour-sensitive, stereoscopic vision coupled with opposable thumbs and good manual dexterity make them excellent at sorting images, a task that...

The abundance of decorations, promotions and candy seemed to indicate that there was a celebration or festival going on in the last week of October. In a possibly related incident, on Sunday evening my...

Although it seems the Internet may be forcing television to go the way of the gramophone, some strange new corporate pairings may keep you on the couch for years to come. Apple has already...

When you think Star Wars, your mind will probably drift to space battles and quasi-religious hermits. However, when researchers at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) reflected on the films, their thoughts apparently...

The term “computer virus” usually conjures up images of incompetent users, less-than-reputable websites and, at worst, lost data. However, the recent attack on Iran’s nuclear infrastructure by the Stuxnet virus may change the way...

What if you could rearrange DNA like Lego, cutting and pasting useful bits and pieces or writing entirely new sequences? What if through this manipulation you could write biological “programs,” organisms that act according...

It’s not often that a technology as radical, accessible and world changing as the Internet comes to be. It’s even more rare that the technology allows its users shape it to their needs from...