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No wonder I am having dreams about meeting Captain Kirk - teleportation is coming.

And the Matrix could be very real, physicists and mathematicians tells us.

The principle of resonance will power future energy devices, from light bulbs to laptops.

Professor James Chadwick, who discovered the neutron, had sealed the envelope containing the instructions, many decades ago.

A new device can help people achieve relaxation and a refreshing nano-nap.

Implantable chips have been approved for use in humans.

Speciesism, the notion that humans are unique and special and therefore deserve to dominate everything on this planet, takes another knock.

A test case in Austria is seeking to establish that Hiasl, a chimp, deserves legal recognition as a person.

Black holes could be portals to other universes, scientists now say, and in fact may be "wormholes," or rapid-transit gateways.

A UK woman has described herself as "electronically sensitive" and her symptoms are being acknowledged as real.

Tears damaged a cellphone, in an n of 1 study recently reported on a Tech News Blog.

If you are too busy to chat on-line with buddies, here is a solution: create a virtual clone.

The search for intelligent extraterrestrial life gains a boost with discovery of a planet that has air and water sufficient to support life.

The Internet is coming soon to a space station near you.

Swarming "smart dust" could be used to explore space, according to engineers at the UK's National Astronomy Meeting.

It's refreshing to see the videos of leading thinkers that TED has put together, including a talk by quantum physicist David Deutsch describing his idea of the multiverse.

The University of Leeds is designing a so-called "self-healing" house.

Technology is bringing us not only the "sixth sense," but lots of other hybrid senses, too.

Virtual reality structures are being constructed that will immortalize virtual representations of living people.

Researchers tell us that objects can indeed travel faster-than-light, the paradox being that such objects have no mass.

A surgically implanted device is already available that can send information to your medical doctor.

A woman with autism has made a remarkable video that speaks to the soul.

Robots are learning emotions from people, and they'll be reading this blog before long.

Following "robot phone home," the next prediction from the AAAS meeting is that, within a decade cars could start driving themselves on highways and in less than 25 years automakers may be producing vehicles "smart" enough to chauffeur passengers through city streets.

Abraham Maslow explored the 'farther reaches of human nature' with a positive psychology of motivation; now, robot psychology is being used industrially to guide motivation of android helpmates.

Virtual reality is being used to treat soldiers returning from Iraq with post-traumatic stress disorder.

Robotic therapy is shown to help restore hand use after stroke.

Science fiction once again becomes science fact as neural implants gain momentum, aiding those suffering from spinal cord injuries.

Wired posts an interesting interview with the scientist who invented the notion of quantum computers with the aim of proving the existence of parallel universes.

Patients in a persistent vegetative state nonetheless have neurological consciousness, Time reported.

The reason we have not yet been "contacted" by other beings in the universe is being there is so much space to cover, they haven't had time, reports a Danish researcher.

The threat of "botnets" that take over others' computers and weave them into a cybercrime network is very real.

Some think so, saying the python was worshiped in African caves "as 70,000 years ago—30,000 years earlier than the oldest previously known human rites."

I'm afraid we are losing the distinction between physical and virtual reality, just like Ray Kurzweil has prophesied (predicted).

Buddhists tell us every being has been our mother in one incarnation or another. What about cloned pork? Compassion doubtless remains.

By wireless teleportation, I refer to the use of the brain to send signals to move a physical object.

Medical use of nanotechnology and robotic surgery is accelerating, bringing futurist technology to the fore of conventional health care.

The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) has begun promoting health in the digital world through appearance in Second Life as a female avatar named Philo Hygeia (lover of health).

Is it really so far-out to assume that information can be mediated through the human energy field, even though we are as yet unable to determine or measure the mechanism?

Information age maven Ray Kurzweil has predicted that computers will continue to exceed human capabilities in many arenas, including the medical.

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