With a total of 10 black holes detected, what we’ve learned about the Universe is truly amazing. On September 14th, 2015, just days after LIGO first turned on at its new-and-improved […]
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Technical knowledge continues to be privileged over social knowledge.
A new study highlights the role Facebook algorithms unwittingly played in ISIS recruitment and points to continuing problems.
Twitter clarifies whether it would block any world leaders from its platform.
Jamie Aten is an expert on the science of dealing with Really Bad Things.
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Starbucks is only the latest example of a very old systemic problem. Are these trainings effective?
Harvard psychologists identify “prevalence-induced concept change,” our tendency to raise our threshold for success as we make progress.
Reddit can reveal a lot, depending on how you interpret the data.
Artificial intelligence continues to tackle jobs traditionally performed by humans. However, our cognitive biases will challenge our ability to effectively integrate AI into human teams.
Results are among the strongest evidence yet for “spooky action at a distance.”rnrn
NASA’s Twins Study is critical to understanding what happens to the human body after a prolonged period in space.
Smart connected devices finding their way into million of’ homes are being taken over by domestic abusers, allowing them to invade and disrupt victims’ lives in a new, terrifying way
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A new study discovers the “liking gap” — the difference between how we view others we’re meeting for the first time, and the way we think they’re seeing us.
A new study attempts to figure out why the motor cortex sometimes synchronizes to speech as the auditory cortex does.
Plogging represents the intersection of personal and ecological health.
Be glad your name isn’t attached to any of these bad ideas.
We all know who Confucius was, but what did he teach?
Researchers at Human Longevity have developed technology that can generate images of individuals face using only their genetic information. But not all are convinced.
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Despite what Hawking told you, it really isn’t about particle-antiparticle pairs at all. Nothing in the Universe lives forever. All the stars that will ever form will someday burn out; distant […]
The probe, no larger than a car, will be the closest a man-made object has ever gotten to the sun. We will be able to study and see it like we’ve never seen it before.
Two tech titans can’t agree on the one thing that could come to define our times: A.I. What do they have to say on the matter?
The Saudi blockade of its tiny neighbour Qatar could soon change the very geography of the region.
Lasers, mirrors, and computational advances can all work together to push ground-based astronomy past even the limits of Hubble. One of the most profoundly remarkable properties about our atmosphere is that […]
It marks the third such defamation against Jones, but it’s not clear the plaintiffs will have an easy case ahead of them.
The effect of this trend will be with us for decades to come, experts say.