A brief article on a big idea. Adam Beberg, founder of Distributed.Net, is working on new do-it-yourself software that will let anyone with a little programming experience and a big idea create similar distributed efforts.

The story behind the teenage hacker who reacted to India's nuclear weapons test by hacking Bhabba, India's top nuclear research center.

Virginia Postrel criticizes the viewpoint of ethicists who are opposed to life extension research.

AI is experiencing a resurgence due to advances in neural network technology and the growing need for data mining.

Though they may not be making many headlines these days, supercomputers, once used exclusively by nuclear scientists and government codebreakers, are increasingly finding their way into private hands.

Forbes surveys the emerging nanotechnology industry, arguing that it "will be bigger than the Internet and more far-reaching. It will create vast new wealth. It will destroy a lot of old wealth. And it will shake up just about every business on the planet."

Military researchers are developing what could be the next internet -- a network of millions of tiny but intelligent embedded sensors.

Biotech firms are tantalizingly close to unraveling the mysteries of memory. On the way are drugs to help fading minds remember and let haunted ones forget.

The debate over nanotechnology has grown more heated as nanotechnology has become more publicized. Some point to the undeniable benefits of the new technology--lighter, faster, smaller-- and of advances in areas like medicine. Others worry about the possible side effects of nanomaterials like carbon nanotubes.

British scientists called for more research into the safety of nanoparticles, materials so small that their dimensions can be measured in atoms, following evidence they can lodge in the brain.