A bold, new venture took flight recently with the initiation of the SynBio Startup Launchpad, Singularity University's inaugural accelerator program in synthetic biology. Aimed at vaulting entrepreneurs with rapid-cycle,...
The era of commercial spaceflight has begun.
Early Friday morning SpaceX, a private company with less than 2,000 employees and and average age of 30,...
It goes without saying that YouTube has become the quintessential online video source for amateurs and professionals alike, but on the service's seven-year anniversary,...
Satellite technology is a modern-day "Wonder of the World." Consider that currently over 1,000 active satellites orbit the Earth, communicating with ground-based transmitters and receivers for...
The revelation that high-density lipoprotein, or HDL, is the “good cholesterol” has suffered a major blow. A meta-study involving over a hundred thousand participants...
Online education is witnessing its own Avengers-like uniting of superhero forces as Harvard University and MIT recently announced "edX", a combined $60 million joint initiative to...
The Brazilian fashion retailer C&A has created networked clothes hooks that display the total number of Facebook "Likes" for each garment in real time....
For four years, nearly 200 high school students in Dallas voluntarily allowed every text, email, and IM to be monitored. That these youth would sign...
Resveratrol, the famed anti-aging supplement extracted from red wine, has experienced its share of controversy. An experimental artifact, a pair of studies that questioned...
Say goodbye to lattes with funky tastes or attitude from coffeehouse baristas. At the University of Texas, a startup called Briggo LLC has installed...
Meet Drchrono, the free app for your mobile device that could revolutionize healthcare in the modern world. Founded by Daniel Kivatinos and Michael Nusimow,...
Forget all those hours of slicing your mouse brain in to sections, snapping images, and then manually putting them back together. Researchers have come...
