MP3 Paul Zak tells us about oxytocin, a chemical messenger that accounts for why some people are generous, trustworthy, and faithful and others aren’t. His book The Moral Molecule: The Source of Love and Prosperity …
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In this pioneering book, four senior managers of the global management consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton map out solutions to some of these large-scale challenges through the groundbreaking new concept of the Megacommunity. This is …
Jon Bruner – “Tim O’Reilly spoke with me last week about Internet companies acquiring massive proprietary data sets. “We’re kind of heading toward data as a source of monopoly power in some cases,” he told …
Google wowed the world this week with its Project Glass computer glasses – but the U.S. Army is investing in a technology one step ahead. The Pentagon has placed an order with Innovega for lenses …
Scientists say the notoriously dry continent of Africa is sitting on a vast reservoir of groundwater. They argue that the total volume of water in aquifers underground is 100 times the amount found on the …
Cars that drive themselves are not just the stuff of sci-fi movies. The technology is real, the cars can now drive legally and the debate is starting on whether society is better off when software …
Peter Schmitt, an MIT doctoral student, printed a clock in 2009. He didn’t print an image of a clock on a piece of paper. He printed a three-dimensional clock — an eight-inch diameter plastic timekeeping …
The human brain’s power could rival any machine. And now scientists are trying to build one using the world’s most powerful computer. It is intended to combine all the information so far uncovered about its …
South Korea, a nation with a self-proclaimed goal of being a leader in robotics technology has, through the Asian Forum of Corrections (AFC), begun testing the feasibility of using robots as prison guards in an …
Consumers are tired with the mundane shopping experiences offered by most retailers today. They dislike convention. As big box retailers close their doors, opt for a smaller footprint, or fail to deliver an acceptable return …
Japan could fall out of the league of developed nations by 2050, a think tank has warned. A shrinking and greying population as well as slowing productivity all contribute to make its economy contract. …
As any New York City subway passenger has noticed, the number of people ditching paperbacks in favor of a Kindle or iPad is exploding. E-books last year accounted for 20.2 percent of all books sold …
Researchers have succeeded in mimicking the chemistry of life in synthetic versions of DNA and RNA molecules. The work shows that DNA and its chemical cousin RNA are not unique in their ability to encode …
We knew that young women in some areas of the U.S. were outearning their male peers, but new data suggests that career success is a higher priority for women between the ages of 18 and …
How much would you pay for an amazing, state-of-the-art light bulb? Shoppers will be asking themselves that very question at Home Depot and other outlets starting Sunday –Earth Day– when the bulb that won a …
Colorado State University apparel design and production researchers and students are working to develop natural-fiber outdoor clothing that can charge MP3 devices, tablets, computers, GPS units and cell phones with built-in — but comfortable to …
Carol Zall – “Advances in the field of genomics have made it possible to use a person’s DNA to find out where their ancestors may have come from. A number of companies now offer these …
“It’s hard to escape the idea that we are going backwards,” Chiao, a veteran of three shuttle missions and a trip to the International Space Station on a Russian Soyuz rocket and now a private …
China summoned a diplomat from the Philippines for a second time on Wednesday to protest Manila’s claim over an area of the South China Sea, a foreign ministry spokesman said, as the standoff between the …
Their technical skills helped Japan’s corporate giants sweep all before them in the 1980s, and now thousands of aging Japanese engineers are finding a new lease on life in booming China. “My profession is going …
Five years from now supercomputers will be able to carrying out more than one billion billion calculations per second – and such blistering speed will require an overhaul of how we write software. To help …
Muddy trails extending for hundreds of miles into the subtropical wilderness of the Democratic Republic of the Congo end at shallow, exposed mines full of one of the most valuable mineral deposits on earth: tantalum …
The penny’s days are numbered but the Royal Canadian Mint is now researching ways to find a second life for the one-cent denomination in the digital world. Mere days after Finance Minister Jim Flaherty announced …
Is it possible to sequence the genome of a region? What makes San Diego more of an entrepreneurial city than, say, Chicago? Chicago has plenty of money. It’s got great universities. It has the will …
From a computer screen in an office block in Dortmund, Germany a power-plant operator for utility giant RWE AG orchestrates the output of wind turbines, rooftop solar panels, and other renewable energy devices scattered across …
Professor Lee Cronin, Gardiner Chair of Chemistry at the University, believes his research could lead to the development of home chemical fabricators which consumers could use to design and create medicine at home. A new …
It may seem like science fiction, but experts have started creating a road network in the sky that could accommodate thousands of flying cars. Scientists say land vehicles which can convert into flying machines are …
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