Teaching the singularity: More on Google and others’ vision of merging technology and human and its implication – just a couple of decades away, apparently.

There’s an interesting symposium on the social implications of emerging technologies starting today, and yes cyborg rights is one keynote topic.

Controversial science, even the early-stage speculative stuff, should be unveiled and open for discussion. I should like to defend my work and defend good science communication.

How long can we live? How long do we want to live? A series of articles in Nature explore the potential.

Scientists have successfully integrated nano-electronic components and living cells, taking the first step toward functioning mini computers inside cells.

Selected slides from secondary teacher workshop titled, Human enhancement: are we going cyborg

Stem cells have been engineered to contain a gene that enhances their healing properties by summoning extra blood vessels to newly formed tissue.

Yeh right

The futurist and inventor, Ray Kurzweil, is claiming (again) that by 2020 nanobots and other nanotechnologies will be allowing us to live forever.

Wish you had more hours in the day? The secret might lie in a mob of insomniac mice. The question is what else can we do with this knowledge?