Imaginary Trips Beyond Reality
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Both the movie âThe Great World of Soundâ and the book âThe Homeless Channelâ understand the reality TV phenomenon.
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Mamoru Oshii's hallucinatory meditation on life unfolds in a swirl of film-noir intrigue, philosophical speculation, eye-popping images and serious science-fiction cool.
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Teaching online isn't unusual, but professors are taking advantage of Linden Lab's 3-D metaverse to shape meeting spaces to their needs and provide an added dimension to learning. By Daniel Terdiman.
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The elusive Illusionist casts it own type of spell
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Newbie finds the world of "Second Life" to be fantastical, brimming with possibility, and surprisingly like the real world. Images: Scoping out 'Second Life'
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A new experiment sends a simple idea racing around the web, and tracks its progress. All of this has happened before; all of this will happen again. By Robert Lemos.
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New research has opened a promising window on the phenomenon of dÃ©jÃ  vu, providing both possible explanations for the sensation and novel ways to create and measure it.
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Scientists figure out why too much marijuana sometimes causes feelings of paranoia. It involves the geography of the brain.
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Readers fire off a few comments on sci-fi past and present, and reminisce on a trip to a SubAtomic Inferno. Plus: Links to our most commented-upon blog posts.
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VatSim flight simulation network gives aviation enthusiasts a realistic look at air traffic control.
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Real and mythological creatures mingle in the strange looking-glass world of two new museum exhibitions.
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Printing with Lightroom on Leopard...getting Photoshopped for Christmas...cell phones with 5x optical zoom...the optical triangle illusion
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The most profound insights to emerge from the pursuit of synthetic life just may be about real life.
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Researchers in England and Switzerland use video cameras and virtual-reality goggles to make subjects observe "themself" from elsewhere in the room. They learn: "The brain can trick itself."
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An astonishing new technology allows one set of sensory information to substitute for another in the brain.
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Imaging the brain during social interaction reveals a deficit that may be tied to a sense of self.
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Many people have experienced the phenomenon of receiving a telephone call from someone shortly after thinking about them -- now a scientist says he has proof of what he calls telephone telepathy.