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Schell predicts that one day, companies may connect their products through the Internet, with various consequences. The more you brush your teeth, for example, the more points you may gain towards rewards from the company.

Professor predicts life in the future will resemble a game

A Carnegie Mellon professor describes how different companies' point systems may one day translate into daily behavior, turning our lives into a kind of game.

MULE looks to revolutionize laptop security by using location

MULE is a revolutionary laptop security measure that makes use of a specific, safe location as a method for encryption.

After infecting a cell, HIV particles are ejected to infect another. This is called budding, and it can be seen in the top middle of the picture as a darker bulge.

How Things Work: PrEP & iPrEP

Researchers are developing a preventative drug against HIV, which would help lower the risk of acquiring the disease if taken before possible exposure.

A baby born with obvious birth defects from thalidomide: The foot is misshapen with an extra appendage, and the right arm is malformed.

Health Talk: Thalidomide

Learn about thalidomide, a drug originally prescribed to treat morning sickness and still prescribed for other uses today, that ended up causing strange birth defects.

SciTech Briefs

A new theory explains how our universe may actually be inside a wormhole of a larger universe, which would explain many aspects of our universe that are currently unclear.

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