The über trend is that uncertainty is no longer a “circumstance” that is transitory. We have entered the “Epoch of Uncertainty,” where it is a permanent state … at least for the foreseeable future. The Renaissance created a great uncertainty but ended in a new synthesis and the establishment of new social, political, and economic […]

A neurotransmitter has been found essential to retrieving very specific memories, promising to improve the understanding and treatment of psychological conditions such as post-traumatic stress disorder and depression.

The latest human activity to be mastered by robots was demonstrated recently when Sony’s QRIO bot successfully conducted an entire orchestra.

A specialized search engine developed by engineers at Purdue University allows users to draw a sketch of a part or to select one from a database. The system then returns parts having similar shapes. They call it shape searching.

RAND recently released a study analyzing the forces shaping America’s workforce over the next decade or so. Among the key trends identified in the study: The nation’s workforce will be nearly static by 2010, growing just 0.4 percent a year—a sharp decline from the 1.1 percent annual increases seen in the 1990s and the 2.6 […]

Helen Keller once said that what a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self. Researchers are developing a system that aims to provide something close — a computerized “seeing” assistant that will help blind people read books, access Web pages, recognize faces and navigate unfamiliar rooms.