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Dr. Diana Reiss is one of the world's leading experts on dolphin intelligence. She is a Professor of Cognitive Psychology at Hunter College and directs a dolphin research program at the National Aquarium in Baltimore. Dr. Reiss is a leading rescuer who served as an adviser for the Oscar-winning film, The Cove. In her book, The Dolphin in the Mirror, Dr. Reiss gives us a…

Scientists are doing their best to give us the gift of immortality. The latest in the fight against ever dying is a gene therapy that gives mice a healthy dose of telomerase, the enzyme that keeps our chromosomes – and thus our cells and bodies – “young.” The therapy extended the lifespans of mice by 24 percent and,…

Google CEO Larry Page’s talk titled “Beyond Today” at this year’s Zeitgeist was centered around all of the areas that Google focuses on, including Project Glass, the power of the smartphone, Google+, and increased interest in all things mobile.

By Mark Piesing

Forget about The Terminator, the real problem with AI (artificial intelligence) is what to do when it meets your boss or even your friends.

This is not the pitch for some kind of sci-fi rom-com, but rather the genuine concern of Dr Stuart Armstrong, a research fellow at…


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The Next 100 Years of Science: Long-term Trends in the Scientific Method with…

Top university courses from around the world are available online for free through the social venture, Coursera.

Topics from the Humanities, Medicine, Biology, Social Sciences, Mathematics, Business, Computer Science, and many others.

I’d like to check out U. Penn’s “Networked Life” being offered this fall.…

Google has taken its first tentative steps into the world of semantic search, with the launch of the Knowledge Graph.

The search giant constantly tweaks the way its service works but the addition of semantic search to its search engine is the biggest change yet for the search giant.

Instead of pushing people to other sites, it has begun adding…

The quantum future is crystal clear: Tiny crystal revolutionises computing

Computing technology has taken a huge leap forward thanks to a tiny crystal of trapped ions used in experiments by Dr Michael Biercuk, from the University of Sydney's School of Physics and ARC Centre of Excellence for Engineered Quantum Systems, with US and South African colleagues.

The…

To figure out how your brain works, researchers need to be able to measure the electrical activity of neurons. But now, a new method allows robots to perform the task instead.

Your brain and nervous systems are made up of neurons, sending and receiving the electrical signals that let us breathe, move, think,…