News trends make sense when they can be traced back to specific events, developments, or monumental moments. Other times, the minds of journalists and writers seem to...
The saying goes, “Lightning never strikes the same place twice.” But what's in a saying? Dr. Eric Betzig recently showed creating one revolutionary new microscope...
“I am bleeding just a little bit,” said Raymond McCauley. “Might I ask for a little assistance?” McCauley, chair of Singularity University’s biotechnology and...
We've all wondered how our lives would be different if things had gone another way. Would we be the same person or someone we wouldn't even recognize?
The...
In the evolution of information technology, acceleration is the rule—and this fact isn’t easy for the human brain to grasp.
You’d be hard pressed to...
Neil Jacobstein, Singularity University’s co-chair in AI and Robotics, has been thinking about artificial intelligence for a long time, and at a recent talk...
What technology has the most world-changing potential in the next decade or two?
Brad Templeton, Singularity University’s networks and computing chair, thinks it's driverless cars....
"The future is already here — it's just not very evenly distributed."
This quote, credited to sci-fi writer William Gibson, is popular among futurists and technologists because...
Hacking and cyberterrorism are modern-day realities, and the more connected we become, the more vulnerable we are.
While this is true for individuals, it's much more...
Scientists from Scripps Research Institute just discovered that optic flow—the technical term for the temporal rate at which objects move past the eye—helps us...
If the last few decades in information technology have been characterized by cheaper, faster, and smaller computer chips, the next few decades will add...
The National Ignition Facility, located in Livermore, CA, is a spectacular, ultramodern facility the size of a football stadium. Housed within are 192 laser...
At this year's Exponential Medicine conference, CNBC was present to probe faculty about some of the exciting developments within accelerating technologies. One of the most...
At the 2014 Exponential Medicine conference, faculty from Singularity University were interviewed by CNBC about some of the most exciting advances in emerging technologies. When it comes to world...
Scientific research of the body is broken, says Jessica Richman, cofounder and CEO of uBiome.
Our data is narrowly focused on a subset of humans—western,...
Everything we experience indicates that time progresses in one irreversible direction.
Anyone who has taken physics, read Einstein's work on relativity, or has an interest in black...
Today the XPRIZE Foundation announced the winner of the Nokia Sensing XCHALLENGE, the global competition aimed at accelerating the availability of hardware sensors and software...
The weather is fine and the future on display. I'm in San Diego covering Singularity University’s Exponential Medicine conference through Wednesday. The four-day event kicked...
In light of Halloween, a tragic failure for the space industry, and another voting cycle in the U.S., this week saw a proliferation of articles all about different...
An international consortium of scientists report sequencing the full genome of a man who lived 45,000 years ago. The DNA was isolated from a thighbone...
Neil Harbisson, who dons an electronic eye that enables him to hear color and is the world's first government-recognized cyborg, has famously said, "I don’t feel that...
We’ve often written about the “Internet of Things.” This is the idea that as chips get smaller, more energy efficient, and more connected, we’ll embed...
Imagine a world where your outfit makes more than a fashion statement.
Thanks to miniaturization and state-of-the-art integration of electronics, smart clothing is a burgeoning...
We're excited today to officially announce the new direction of our site!
Singularity Hub, published by Singularity University, has operated since 2008 as a scitech blog...
An extraordinary competition is underway—one that could be more impactful to the human species than any other technological rivalry to come before it. Soon,...
