In "I Sing the Body Electric," the poet Walt Whitman waxed lyrically about the "action and power" of "beautiful, curious, breathing, laughing flesh." […]

Spiky yellow and blue shapes begin to fill a screen that spans an entire wall in a lab at Imperial College London. […]

In February, the ACLU of Massachusetts released a damning report detailing prejudice in social media surveillance efforts by the Boston Police Department (BPD). […]

Researchers in Brazil have designed a chip to upgrade the detection system in the Large Hadron Collider's A Large Ion Collider Experiment (ALICE). […]

Eleanor Margolis had used PayPal for more than a decade when the online payment provider blocked her account in January. The reason: She was 16 years old when she signed up, and PayPal Holdings Inc. insists she should have known the minimum age is 18, because the rule is clearly stated in terms and conditions she agreed to. […]

(Eindhoven University of Technology) Researchers of Eindhoven University of Technology and fiber broadband equipment supplier Genexis have developed data transmission techniques that can double or even triple the data transmission capacity of existing fiber to the home connections. Enjoying this increase requires you to upgrade your modem. But even if only your neighbors do, you can get a higher data capacity as well. […]

(Umea University) An international team of researchers led by professor Niklas Arnberg at Umeå University, shows that adenovirus binds to a specific type of carbohydrate that is overexpressed on certain types of cancer cells. The discovery opens up new opportunities for the development of virus-based cancer therapy. The study is published in the latest issue of the scientific journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. […]

(Brown University) A new theory of how compression and tension can affect the reactivity of metal catalysts could be helpful in designing new and better catalysts. […]

(Boston University College of Engineering) A new microchip technology capable of optically transferring data could solve a severe bottleneck in current devices by speeding data transfer and reducing energy consumption by orders of magnitude, according to an article published in the April 19, 2018 issue of Nature. […]

(Johns Hopkins University) Often people think performing in front of others will make them mess up, but a new study found the opposite: being watched makes people do better. […]

How adding touch to VR can lead to an “uncanny valley” of sensations—and what we can do about it -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com […]

The Swedish furniture has become something of a benchmark for robotics engineers -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com […]

The real danger is that the information and social platforms on the internet are being corrupted in the service of con men, political demagogues and thieves -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com […]

Researchers used Twitter searches for nonflu words associated with behavior to predict flu outbreaks two weeks in advance.   -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com […]

Princeton University's Jennifer Rexford talks about optimizing the internet for the uses it got drafted into performing.   -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com […]