David Ewing Duncan

The president wants to massively cut most nonmilitary R&D—except for NASA. An interview with ‘How We’ll Live on Mars’ author Stephen Petranek reveals why.

SpaceX and Tesla visionary Elon Musk says we may need to go cyborg to keep up with our machines. How realistic is this?

With humans on the cusp self-evolution, a new report emphasizes the need for a societal conversation that we’re not likely to have.

Does it matter that armies of Americans are not sharing the tech-progressive dream right now?

It's time to face up to an inconvenient truth about why so many people seem so furious.

Could bacteria hold the answer to an Alzheimer’s cure? Some researchers say yes.

Personal health data is piling up fast, but what does it mean, and who is trying to make sense of it?

As IT feverishly vies to disrupt health care—and to hack the human organism—engineers are running up against a mindset that’s planets apart from their own.

Brain scientists are working to turn on and off behavior with electricity—and possibly motivation and optimism, too. How a few milli-amps of electric current could change your life.

The government needs brilliant minds reinventing it with the same urgency they use to create apps and nanobots. How the tech world stole America’s biggest thinkers.