New technology paves the way for improved information transfer in emerging ‘magnonics’ field

In memory of computer security expert James Dolan, 1981-2017. 

Why do we have cures and medicines for some diseases but not others? Surprisingly, it is not because we cannot make the medicines; it is because we do not know enough about the diseases that need new medicines. To span the chasm between understanding the biology of a disease and successfully treating patients, we must foster collaborative efforts between biology and chemistry. The hope is that such cross-field cooperation will enable insights into disease biology by using chemical compounds that could lead to FDA-approved therapeutics.

The FBI has illegally shared raw intelligence about Americans with unauthorized third parties and violated other constitutional privacy protections, according to newly declassified government documents that undercut the bureau’s public assurances about how carefully it handles warrantless spy data to avoid abuses or leaks. By John Solomon and Sara Carter.

The ability to remember sounds, and manipulate them in our minds, is incredibly important to our daily lives -- without it we would not be able to understand a sentence, or do simple arithmetic. New research is shedding light on how sound memory works in the brain, and is even demonstrating a means to improve it. One day this stimulation could compensate for the loss of memory caused by neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's.

Why are some people even questioning that we have free will? Isn‘t it, like the great French philosopher René Descartes argued, simply self-evident that our will is free? Isn’t it absurd to believe we do not make real decisions given the fact how we struggle to make them every day? Clearly you are able to freely choose to eat an apple or a banana and no one in the world could predict with certainty which way your decision will manifest.

Elon Musk wants to fix disability, replace language as we know it, and use brain implants to usher us into a telepathic world. And he wants the first part of this to be done in the next four years. All of this could theoretically work, experts say. But probably not on the timeline that Musk has set.

Five people fell ill from an unknown hazardous material that appears to be spreading by contact and causing hallucinations, the Coos County Sheriff's Office said. A hazmat team responded to both Bay Area Hospital and a home on East Bay Road as the symptoms spread from a woman to deputies, a person under the woman's care and a hospital employee, the sheriff's office said.

The US whistleblower Edward Snowden has attacked his Russian protectors by criticising the Kremlin’s human rights record and suggesting that its officials have been involved in hacks on US security networks.

There are some ingredients I cook with so often I can never buy too many of them, and most of them are produce. Onions, garlic and fresh herbs are staples in a lot of dishes, and they may be inexpensive, but when you use them on a daily basis it can add up. Some foods are easy to regrow at home from leftover scraps, and some of them can even be grown right on your kitchen counter.

London-based photographer Chino Otsuka has earned the nickname “The Time Traveling Photographer” thanks to her series entitled Imagine Finding Me. In the photo series, Chino cleverly inserts her adult self into various childhood photos, often mimicking the pose she had as a child.

Aaron Swartz, a well-known Internet activist who killed himself last month, believed that information should free, not digitized and put behind pay walls.

Radical Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden was not killed but abducted by the US troops when they attacked his hideout in Pakistan in 2011, a well-known Kuwaiti political analyst was quoted on Sunday as saying.

Safer condoms will be one of the first products developed at the new National Graphene Institute in Manchester. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has awarded scientists $100,000 (£60,000) to create stronger, thinner condoms from the new "wonder material".

Just for the sake of argument, let’s assume time travel is theoretically possible. Even so, the fact that we aren’t aware of any time travelers isn’t particularly surprising. Making a big change far in the past, one that would conclusively announce to the world that time travel is real, could potentially change history such that the time traveler would never be born in the first place.

A plant used by the Chinese for centuries in a traditional concoction to relieve pain has been found to contain a strong natural analgesic. The compound works against the three types of pain including acute, inflammatory and neuropathic or chronic pain. The discovery of the painkilling chemical dehydrocorybulbine (DHCB) was made as part of the Herbalome project, an effort to catalogue all of the chemical components of traditional Chinese medicines.

The year 2003 was the last that 18-year-old Edward Snowden lived a normal life. Snowden, a computer gaming jock and fan of Japanese animation, was about to enter a decade-long journey deep inside the "black ops" secret spy world of the Central Intelligence Agency [CIA], the Defense Intelligence Agency [DIA] and the National Security Agency [NSA].

An eminent scholar compares the world today with the one that was shattered in 1914

Earthquake lights - a phenomenon that appears in the sky during or before seismic activity - are more likely to occur on or near rift environments.

Why are so many uninhabited cities still being built in China? Dateline returns to update one of its most watched stories, China's Ghost Cities, to find out.

An overview of the world's largest particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider, produced by CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research.

The NSA is racing to build a computer that could break nearly every kind of encryption used to protect banking, medical, business and government records around the world.

Man, oh man, the stuff you miss during the year when you’re too busy texting, making Angry Cat photos and unsuccessfully signing up for government health plans.