Newsweek article about the coming Star Trek movie casts President Obama in new light. [Continue]

Scientists are experimenting with physarum polycephalum - slime mold - to establish the basic functions of bio-computing. That is to say, they are making programmable 'machines' out of slime mold, using its ameboid biostructure as a basic computing [Continue]

Aliens in fiction need to be more than humans in rubber suits. Growing complex aliens means rethinking their psychology from the ground up. [Continue]