If science fiction has anything to say about it, DARPA's new 330-pound, six-foot two-inch tall Atlas robot will be more than a sophisticated human-sized bipedal rescue robot created by Boston...

“Science fiction is an existential metaphor that allows us to tell stories about the human condition. Isaac Asimov once said, ‘individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the...

Human Cloning ~ Are You Adaptable? Scientists have used cloning technology to transform human skin cells into embryonic stem cells, an experiment that may revive the controversy over human cloning...