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Where To Find Life Outside Earth

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Dying stars are good bets for hosting life, which we could detect within the next decade. (more)

Printable 3D Ear

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Cornell doctors and engineers built a lifelike artificial ear made of living cells using 3D printing technologies. (more)

Birth of a Black Hole

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A strange supernova explosion indicates a baby black hole in the Milky Way.

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Scientists Create Near-Living Crystal

droplets_thumb.jpgPhysicists at NYC University have this month published the results of their experiment on the lifelike behaviours of a newly-synthesized chemical compound. (more)

Advanced Mind Mapping

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The Human Connectome Project is developing a new form of brain mapping that will help scientists to better understand consciousness. (more)

Technology Conference Furthers Global Evolution

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Campus Party brings together the best minds in technology to share experiences and innovate in an effort to create a better world.

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World's First 3D Photobooth

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The Eye of Gyre, an art exhibition space in Tokyo’s Harajuku neighborhood, recently introduced the world’s first 3D photo booth. (more)

What's Too Weird for Wired? My Predictions for 2013

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Commissioned by Wired UK to write predictions for 2013, I focused on the rising transformational tribes, while carefully leaving out the more esoteric stuff. I figured this would fit in a venue that tracked Burning Man and Occupy. After they killed the piece, I questioned the value of "trend setting" media as well as my own ability to be a bridge to the mainstream. (more)

Life on Mars?

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A new study about water temperature on Mars shines light on the possibility of life on the Red Planet.  (more)

Cheops: An Extraterrestrial Search

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A satellite, called Cheops, soon to be scanning the stars for potential exoplanets with Earth-like conditions and possible alien lifeforms. (more)

Designing for the Other 90%

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Sustainable design is a powerful concept for transforming our society. It combines the most important word of the 20th century, sustainability, with what will surely be the most important word of the 21st, design, in order to holistically solve some of the world's most pressing problems.  (more)

Blueprints of Utopia

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HavAdda Island is a cybernetic-eco village in Turkey designed by NYC based designer, Dror.  (more)

Geodesic Deconstruction

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Bent on expanding and modernizing the geodesic dome, two Danish architects, Kristoffer Tejlgaard and Benny Jepsen, exploded the design. (more)

Nano Boost

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Researchers at the University of Georgia have developed nanoparticles that deliver drugs targeting a specific cellular organelle. (more)

The Bio-Net

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Scientists have modified a harmless virus, enabling it to transmit messages from one cell to another. (more)

Cyborg Monkeys

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Mental augmentation for animals is no longer a science fiction fantasy plot, but a scientific fact. (more)

Speak, Memory

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Researchers have discovered how to store different forms of artificial short-term memory in the isolated brain tissue of rats. (more)

Ten Strikes You're Out

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[Action Alert] • The "Ten Strikes bill" aims to criminalize streaming content containing copyrighted material, making it punishable to up to 5 years in prison.  (more)

Lasers Uncover the World

lasersre.jpegInstead of uncovering with the pickaxe of the past, archaeologists can now remotely survey micro topography with the use of laser technology(more)

Air Fuel

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It sounds too good to be true, but it's not - Guy Negre has created the Airpod, a vehicle whose engine runs on air.  (more)

Start With Universe

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Buckminster Fuller insisted that the sense of separation from nature is a dangerous illusion, and that humanity's evolutionary success is dependent on our willingness to learn from the emergent behaviors of whole systems. This led him to re-imagine a big picture in which our species is situated within the full continuum of creation. (more)

Remote Viewing Institute Issues Grave Call to Mainstream Science

farsightThumb.jpgFarsight Institute director Dr. Courtney Brown recently issued a revised plea to leaders of mainstream science to recognize the validity of the remote viewing phenomenon. (more)

This Week in Tech

twit1.jpgThis TWIT celebrates the birthdays of Bucky Fuller and St Tesla, God particles, enter the Internet Defense League, comics and cosplay take San Diego, 10 transhumanist pick-up lines, and much much more. (more)

This Week in Tech

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From sustainable to evolveable, graphene captures light, Gamification of NYC, 3D printing the human body, Singularity University parties up, conscious stars vs dark matter, the gigapixel camera, and Alan Turing turns 100! (more)

Flying without Fuel

planethumb.jpgAn experimental solar-powered airplane makes its first successful journey (more)

Science Paradigms Set Aflame

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The 31st Annual Society for Scientific Exploration (SSE) Conference in Boulder, CO, is titled “Bonfire of the Paradigms” for good reason. (more)

BuckyBall Honors Paradigm Definers

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The Buckminster Fuller Institute awarded the 5th Annual BF Challenge award and $100,000 to Seattle NGO Living Building Challenge for top "environmental performance in the built environment." (more)

Living Computers Figured Out

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New discoveries at Johns Hopkins point the way towards living computers.   (more)

A Lucid Dream Come True

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Two Brooklyn developers designed an REM enhancing sleep mask capable of inducing lucid dreams. (more)