Oprah Winfrey has selected Bruce Holsinger's novel "Culpability" as her latest book club pick. The story explores the ethics ...

Environmental activism, corruption and technological invasion are all threaded through the story, representing fears about ...

Corby Ledbetter is in trouble. In Wally Lamb’s new novel, “The River Is Waiting,” Corby has lost his job as a commercial artist and has developed a secret addiction to alcohol and pills ...

For Muriel Spark the process was simple. First, the novelist said, “I write the title, and then I write my name.” Then, she ...

The human skin map – which has been published in the journal Nature and is freely available here – is just one facet of the Human Cell Atlas project, a consortium that aims to map every cell ...

June 12 (UPI) --Researchers have developed a robotic skin that can give robots a similar feeling to human touch. Researchers from the University of Cambridge and University College London have ...

A new synthetic “skin” gives robots the human touch. The low-cost, durable and highly-sensitive material can be added to robotic hands just like a glove, say scientists. It enables automatons ...