A number of recent web-notables all seem to revolve (eccentrically) around the question of human evolution.  Whether it continues. Whether there is such a thing as "selection in groups." Whether…

Crotchety old men seem to have won this argument. Modern pop music is too loud and does sound all the same, just like angry old types have been saying for 70 years.  A team from Spain analyzed…

What exactly happens to your face when you smile spontaneously, and how does that affect how old you look? Computer scientists from the University of Amsterdam's Faculty of Science recorded the…

Parkinson’s disease is the second most common neurodegenerative disease after Alzheimer’s disease. Now patients are getting some high-tech help. REMPARK (Personal Health Device for the Remote and…

Can modern physicists examine ancient myths and teach us about modern social networks, even science ones like Science 2.0? Pesky humanities types are always butting into science and a new article in…

Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) are teaming up to provide $32 million for development of a technology platform that will mimic human…

A team of academics from the University of Southampton thinks they will top the rest of the English Fantasy Football League when the new football season kicks off next month in England. By football,…

If the millions of people suffering who have Multiple Sclerosis or muscular dystrophy could have one wish, it probably wouldn't be that they could use play video games - but until cures can be found…

Issues of “mind uploading” and “machine intelligence” have been in the tech. news of the futurist variety lately which got me thinking about these concepts and led me to write this blog post on the…

Are we on the road to uploading our brains to computers and living forever?  Singularity proponents require a two-pronged approach to believing so; wildly overstating the technology curve of…