A Carrington-magnitude event would kill millions, and cause trillions of dollars in damage. Sadly, it isn’t even the worst-case scenario.
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Edible electronics, devices that can be broken down and digested, could perform many useful functions inside the body.
We’re still using 800,000 gallons of embalming fluid a year, but burials are becoming far less common.
On Nov. 15, 2021, U.S. officials announced that they had detected a dangerous new debris field in orbit near Earth. Later in the day, it was confirmed that Russia had […]
Jung thought these autonomous entities live in your unconscious mind — often at a cost.
Mindfulness, detachment, selecting off-time activities with care: Here are evidence-based strategies to achieve healthy work-life balance.
Between fake vaccine passports and targeted supply chain attacks, things are only getting more risky.
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The study shows that it’s possible to map the wildly subjective psychedelic experiences to specific brain regions.
Talent wants to be free — but a safe company culture puts “the maze in the mouse” and shackles progress.
Smart investors recognize that the stock market doesn’t exist in a vacuum.
Human organs don’t always show up where doctors expect.
Sixty years later, will anybody have heard of COVID?
Yes, there are reasons to worry about Twitter, but it’s not about the bots.
Historical analyses reveal that crises almost always yield surprising benefits.
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While we can see many solar storms coming, some are “stealthy.” A new study shows how to detect them.
The long-standing debate over whether dinosaurs were more like birds or lizards is drawing to a close.
The best time to start was yesterday, the second best is now.
Psychedelics mess with our prior beliefs, and could help us see what forms these beliefs in the first place.
“It doesn’t erase what happened to you. It just changes the impact it has on your life.”
A study looks at how to use nuclear detonations to prevent asteroids from hitting Earth.
Automation technologies manufacture goods or provide labor with minimal human intervention. They can trace their origins as far back as the 16th century—and arguably further—but didn’t take off until the […]
The DARPA-funded memory prosthesis helps the brain retain new information.
Every organization needs the capacity to generate disruptive ideas. No one can afford to stand still and pretend that past habits will guarantee future success. If your organization isn’t ready […]
The artifacts were often made from found objects – an Ivory dish-soap bottle transformed into an earthenware figure.
Books that were rarely taught in 1963, when baby boomers were students, became classics when those same boomers were teachers and parents.
They could also “turn off” their fear.
Skepticism is appropriate when gazing into the futurist’s crystal ball.
Despite all the challenges, Hubble has vindicated this discovery. Practically everywhere we look in the Universe, the large-scale objects that we see — small galaxies, large galaxies, groups and clusters of galaxies, […]