The US Department of Defense has given Dr Jennifer Vendemia a $5m grant to work on her theory that by monitoring brainwaves she can detect whether someone is lying.

Grid computing will provide 1,000 times more business opportunities than what we see over the Internet today.

Brain-computer interface technology continues to advance, with one patient now able to control a robotic hand with his thoughts.

Maricopa County Sheriff’s deputies began using fluorescent pink handcuffs Thursday to transport inmates.

A Connecticut woman who was artificially inseminated with the wrong sperm gave birth to a healthy baby boy, her attorney said on Wednesday.

Adam Penenberg:
After Chris Allbritton returned to New York from Iraqi Kurdistan, he raised $15,000 and headed back to Iraq in 2003 as the first independent journalist-blogger sponsored by his readers. There he risked life and limb covering the war and its messy aftermath, detailing his experiences on his blog, Back-to-Iraq 3.0.

We have to admit that one of the promised uses of nanotech — ingestible machines that will be able to scrub arteries and repair organs — leaves us a little queasy.