Drones are just part of a bid to automate combat. Can virtual ethics make machines decisionmakers? … Read more

It can’t devalue its currency. The rest of Europe isn’t wild about a bailout. What can Greece do? Action Economics suggests taking a page out of Germany’s early 1990s playbook. … Read more

Waters from warmer latitudes — or subtropical waters — are reaching Greenland’s glaciers, driving melting and likely triggering an acceleration of ice loss, reports a team of researchers led by Fiamma Straneo, a physical oceanographer …

As efforts such as The Cancer Genome Atlas and others generate vast quantities of information about the genetic makeup of different types of cancer, it is becoming increasingly clear that such information has great potential …

In a new MIT project called Flyfire, tiny robotic helicopters with LEDs can act as flying pixels, moving together to create transient images in three-dimensional space. If it sounds like something out of a Disney …

A new study led by Nadine Unger of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) in New York City offers a more intuitive way to understand what’s changing the Earth’s climate. Rather than analyzing impacts …

Britain’s national newspaper companies, which are already experiencing severe financial difficulties from the growth of the internet and the downturn in advertising during the recession, are furious that the BBC is preparing to compete with …

A team of chemists led by Ken Suslick from the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign, have developed a coffee analyzer than can distinguish between ten well-known commercial brands of coffee and can also make a …

Energy, healthcare and media executives could benefit by rethinking their industry business models, says Innosight chairman Mark Johnson. … Read more

With the rapid adoption of a North American “smart grid” aimed at helping consumers conserve electricity, it’s also possible that smart appliances will be able to transmit information about their activities (and yours) through the …

A judge questioned whether Google and lawyers for authors and publishers went too far when they struck a deal that would let the gigantic search engine make money presiding over the world’s largest digital library. …

Just as Europe is trying to boost its competitiveness through improved higher education, the economic crisis has led to divisive funding cutbacks for universities. …

Multinational companies in China need to consider new strategies to manage Gen Y employees, now half of China’s working-age population. … Read more

An international team of researchers has created a genome-scale map of 26 different cancers, revealing more than 100 genomic sites where DNA from tumors is either missing or abnormally duplicated compared to normal tissues. The …

In years past, Jiang, who hails from the central province of Hubei, might have had his future decided by match-making relatives in his rural hometown. But now he logs on each day to jiayuan.com — …

A report out of Britain funded by Virgin Airlines owner Richard Branson and other British business leaders warns that peak oil is looming in 2015. The controversial idea that growing oil demand will soon outstrip …

Global metal prices have had a rollercoaster ride in recent years – and they are rising strongly again. … Read more

Foreign demand for US Treasury bonds and notes fell by a record amount in December as China reduced its holdings. … Read more

The ranks of cell phone subscribers will swell to five billion people this year thanks to the growth of smartphones in developed nations and mobile services in poor nations, a UN agency said. … Read …

A nanoscale material developed in Britain could one day yield wafer-thin cellphones and light-weight, long-range electric cars powered by the roof, boot and doors, researchers have reported. … Read more

Nobel laureates, technology titans, artists, scientists, and academics spent five days here grappling with how best to reboot the world. … Read more

A new model, capable of assessing the rate at which the oceans are acidifying, suggests that changes in the carbonate chemistry of the deep ocean may exceed anything seen in the past 65 million years. …

A new way of using the genetic code has been created, allowing proteins to be made with properties that have never been seen in the natural world. The breakthrough could eventually lead to the creation …

The airborne laser program – part Star Wars (the sci-fi flick) and part Star Wars (the Strategic Defense Initiative) – has taken years of work and billions of dollars it get here. But the Pentagon …

Neurologists are employing brain electrodes to try to establish contact with people in vegetative and minimally conscious states. This could be the last hope for Belgian Rom Houben, who has been trapped in his own …