A new understanding of brain chemistry could usher in an age of biologically enhanced humans.

Your future medicine cabinet will integrate home, pharmacy and doctor’s office into a digital health network. It will work with next-gen health-care products—disease screeners, needle-less injectors, sunscreen pills—but its most important product will be the information it can give you and your doctor about your health. Here’s a look inside your future home-care center.

A fetus lives in a world of bubbles. In its earliest days, it’s shaped like one. Later, it floats in one—the squishy, enveloping amniotic sac. And eventually, if all goes well, the fetus releases one bubble of fluid, then another and another, like smoke signals, as it puckers and swallows and floats in the womb. [...]

The easy-to-use tools are being created by malicious and criminal hackers to run the networks of compromised home computers they control.

You’ve really got to hate yourself to strap this thing on. Great photo.

It looks like a typical Toyota Prius hybrid, but in the trunk sits an 80-miles-per-gallon secret — a stack of 18 brick-sized batteries that boosts the car’s high mileage with an extra electrical charge so it can burn even less fuel.

A virus with a huge genome produces a compound that could be used in antiaging treatments.

It’s been seven months since the Pentagon pulled the plug on LifeLog, its controversial project to archive almost everything about a person. But now, the Defense Department seems ready to revive large portions of the program under a new name.

As much as bullets or body armor, rations or radios, an army needs water to survive — especially when it’s fighting in the blistering heat of an Iraqi summer. But hauling a soldier’s daily requirement of three to four gallons of water has become a gargantuan burden to U.S. armed forces. So Darpa, the Pentagon’s [...]

A small plaque lies before a tree planted in Korey Stringer’s memory at Minnesota Vikings training camp. “In Memory of Big K,” it reads, honoring the beloved right tackle who died four years ago from heatstroke. There was no way for trainers to monitor players’ core temperatures on that sweltering July day when Stringer collapsed, [...]

Ever wonder if that spouse, friend or co-worker on the other end of the phone is really paying attention? The “Jerk-O-Meter” may hold the answer.