While laptop and desktop computers are still controlled by keyboards and mice, anyone who is even partially conscious of advances in modern technology knows that the days of physical typing and clicking are numbered. With the steady advance of smartphones and tablets into our lives, the touchscreen...

"Battlestar Galactica" fans, tell me, after the show ended, did a part of your soul die a little? Did follow-up attempts like "Caprica" fail miserably in living up to Battlestar's legacy? I hear you. In an attempt to bring more meaning into your life, five ambitious high school nerds are working to...

We're not at the point where psychic "precogs" lie floating, tethered to computers in the bowels of some secret police headquarters, slipping your name to Tom Cruise so he can drop through your roof and arrest you for pre-crimes. Yet... But we are getting closer. According to data compiled by Crimi...

Robots, lightning, singing fish, and a giant mousetrap might not usually have anything in common, but they do when it's Maker Faire, the tri-annual gathering of "makers" -- DIY hobbyists inspired by Make magazine -- in the California Bay Area, Detroit, and New York City. A cross between a craft mar...

Lynn Budde might feel a step closer to Superwoman. Last week the 50-year-old Kentucky resident, who lost her limbs, nose, and upper lip to Toxic Shock Syndrome (TSS) in 2009, was the first female bi-lateral amputee to be fit with bionic ankles. Running on a lithium polymer battery that needs to be ...

More than 100 dead birds were recently found in a cluster near Highway 101 in the Wine Country region of California.

Some animals and plants that reproduce asexually "can in principle achieve essentially eternal life," according to a new study.