Today, we are in the golden age of meltdowns. More and more of our systems are in the danger zone, but our ability to manage them hasn’t quite caught up.
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The most influential contemporary scientists and their accomplishments.
Spontaneous talk on surprise topics. Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson on the mind-boggling awesomeness of space.
Evolution has trained your mind to create in-groups and out-groups in a flash—but the lines are more flexible than you think.
A new C is coming to the C-suite: The Chief Robotics Officer, or CRO. Do I hear laughter or detect an eye roll? Think again. The bots are coming. Business […]
How the gravitational Casimir effect might cause our Universe’s accelerated expansion, without any new physics at all. “For although it is certainly true that quantitative measurements are of great importance, it […]
Everyone encounters stereotypes. But what you do afterward says something about you
One philosopher believes psychedelic drugs are a gateway to truth and knowledge.
Video gaming skills could be valuable in a rapidly growing industry with a deficit of qualified people, finds new study.
A case in which a judge used an undisclosed software algorithm to determine a defendant’s sentence has caught the interest of the U.S. Supreme Court.
The truth might not be ‘out there’ at all. There may never have been another intelligent, technologically advanced alien species in the entire history of the Universe. When you take into […]
Here’s why you should try to fit less—not more—into each day.
For many companies, particularly those in the tech and manufacturing sectors, innovation is the lifeblood of the company. Entire advocacy groups have been created with the basic goal of protecting […]
Even things like appetite and tiredness move through social networks, researchers found.
There is however, at least one caveat.
North Korea has a long history of making bellicose threats that defy global norms. So does that mean the country’s leaders are irrational, and will act irrationally?
Unwittingly, thousands of Londoners cross zones of reduced civil liberties on a daily basis
A new study says some TV viewers are more moral than others. What kind of viewer are you?
In the aftermath of everything we’ve learned about what’s in the Universe, we can make much better estimates of how many alien civilizations are out there. In 1961, scientist Frank Drake […]
Is consciousness everywhere? Is it a basic feature of the Universe, at the very heart of the tiniest subatomic particles? Such an idea – panpsychism as it is known – […]
New research at USC shows universal brain activity in the comprehension of stories for the first time.
Businesses have been adopting more diversity programs since the 1990s, but do they actually work?
People possessing openness can take diverging visual stimuli and combine them in a special way.
Today, our visible Universe contains 2 trillion galaxies, each with billions of stars. But when did the very first one appear? When we look out at our Universe today, there are […]
Acupuncture has a bad rap in the scientific community, but can modern brain scanning techniques redeem it?
A new study from Yale researchers found that people rate familiar fake news as more accurate than unfamiliar real news. This is a troubling finding that makes the fight against fake news increasingly difficult.
Neil deGrasse Tyson: “One of the things that I think is missing in the educational pipeline in America is… a class on what science is, and how and why it works.”
Europe’s best and brightest minds converge upon Budapest to solve the problems of today’s Europe. Topics will include AI, the job market, emerging technology, and more.
The discovery in Kenya of a 13-million-year-old fossil skull unearths the common ancestor of humans and apes.
A study finds that happen music enhances divergent thinking, and thus, creativity.