Hacking isn’t only for computers. In today's Academic Minute, Northeastern University's Joseph Reagle describes another type used to make life easier. Reagle is an associate professor of communication ...

IT is difficult to spend time online without encountering some kind of 'life hack' — a solution to a (often imaginary) problem that promises to make life easier. Life hacks seem to be mostly geared ...

We are close to creating artificial life from scratch, according to Human Genome scientist and genetic research trailblazer Craig Venter. Just half a year ago, scientists at the J. Craig Venter ...