“Lethal autonomous weapon” sounds friendlier than “killer robot.”
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A study out of Sweden shows that the highest earning men are slightly less intelligent than those just below them on the economic ladder.
We rightly celebrate Winston Churchill as one of the world’s greatest leaders — but for all the wrong reasons.
Can quantum computers do things that standard, classical computers can’t? No. But if they can calculate faster, that’s quantum supremacy.
Does memory start to work only at a certain age?
If we’re going to discuss oceanography and climate change, we should at least identify the currents correctly.
To clear Scotland’s roads in winter, the local traffic agency employs heavy machinery with punny names. Can you grit and bear it?
NicoBoard is an app that helps parents make sense of a frightening time.
You can learn an awful lot about people, culture, and politics by studying R.
Research suggests that emotional intelligence is more vital for success than IQ.
Our greatest tool for exploring the world inside atoms and molecules, and specifically electron transitions, just won 2023’s Nobel Prize.
Viruses, it turns out, can block one another and take turns to dominate.
The Earth that exists today wasn’t formed simultaneously with the Sun and the other planets. In some ways, we’re quite a latecomer.
We could even benefit from more whataboutisms — if they’re used properly.
The multiverse pushes beyond the limits of the scientific method. From our vantage point in the Universe, we cannot know if it’s real.
Some of the weirdest characters in Greek mythology were Athenian kings.
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Valles Marineris is the Solar System’s grandest canyon, many times longer, wider, and deeper than the Grand Canyon. What scarred Mars so?
More than any other nation, Japan tends to feel comfortable with the idea of humanoid robots entering the home.
When maps meet stamps, you get a love child called “cartophilately.”
Bertrand Russell shows us how to recognize emotional arguments smuggled into presumed statements of fact.
Solving difficult visual puzzles seems to help the brain “rewire” itself by forming new neural pathways.
For centuries, men prevented women from writing music. These classical composers broke with social norms and made their mark on history.
“This fourth wave will be worse than it’s ever been before.”
According to the legendary investor, the best method is a blueprint for “extreme success.”
Would you confess your crimes to a skeleton with “an unnatural ghastly glow”? One inventor thought you would.
This flying car — more properly called an “electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) vehicle”
— will seat five and fly up to 135 mph.
“I was part of the surgical team that conducted the first pig-to-human heart transplant in a living patient.”
Some authors never saw their books score widespread acclaim—or even get published at all.
“Tristram Shandy” trolled its way to fame.