Where’d the future go?

You remember it, don’t you? It’s the one with moon bases and intrepid Mars colonists and asteroid miners, with spaceports and space elevators and sprawling habitations up at the Lagrange points. The one we read about when we were kids, the one written about by the likes of Arthur C. Clarke and […]

The most expensive homes in the world are, for the most part, pretty much what you would expect: opulent, private and capable of making the neighbors sick with jealousy. What is surprising, however, is that in some parts of the world, they can be relatively modest, and even a bargain.

A flexible electronic skin that can sense when something is too hot to handle or is being squeezed too hard could give robots an almost-human sense of touch.

The first urine-powered paper battery has been created by physicists in Singapore.

The point of medicine is to make sick people “well,” which is really just another way of saying “afflicted with roughly the same diseases as everyone else.”