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A new web startup is selling algorithmically produced nudes of non-existent women. There’s still some ethical concerns.
TreeTalk finds rare arboreal treasures among London’s common foliage.
Get connected with a native speaker and be immediately immersed in a virtual reality learning space.
The mismatch between theory and experiment is anything but certain. The most exciting moments in a scientist’s life occur when you get a result that defies your expectations. Whether you’re a […]
The Black Death skipped certain parts of Europe – and that could be a lesson for today’s coronavirus epidemic
A new Harvard study finds that the language you use affects patient outcome.
This video game designer’s creations have been said to work “neurological magic.”
If you surreptitiously pick your nose, chances are that everyone can see you doing it.
Deepfakes are “neither intrinsically good nor evil.”
Higher education faces challenges that are unlike any other industry. What path will ASU, and universities like ASU, take in a post-COVID world?
Research is for the experts. Listen to them instead. “Research both sides and make up your own mind.” It’s simple, straightforward, common sense advice. And when it comes to issues like […]
You are who you are because of your environment. What happens in a virtual world in an environment created by another mind?
For many years the concept of virtual worlds and far flung digital realities was the stuff of speculative fiction and philosophy. But it may soon take over the world.
And what might we learn as we collect new, never-before-seen data? If you took one of history’s top scientists from 100 years ago and dropped them into today’s world, what […]
Extraterrestrial life should arise fairly easily. But intelligence is another matter entirely. Planet Earth has been around for the past 4.5 billion years or so: about the last third of […]
As Facebook users around the world are coming to understand, some of their favorite technologies can be used against them. It’s not just the scandal over psychological profiling firm Cambridge […]
Scientists envision a new type of organism ready to assist humans.
From the cosmic blast into another being’s mind, to rolling bliss or obedient mind-slavery, fictional drugs have it all.
Gyms and fitness centers are closed, but your living room is always open.
There’s some amazing science happening at the South Pole, but some very grandiose claims being made. What’s actually going on? For some of us, the idea of parallel Universes spark our […]
About 21 percent of gamers in the United States are over the age of 50.
“We seem to be racing toward a new configuration of government and industry without having fully thought through all of the implications,” Steve Aftergood, director of the Project on Government Secrecy at the Federation of American Scientists, told MIT Technology Review.
Despite being raised in a screen-lit world, today’s children make and maintain friendships as well as past generations.
From a personal point of view and from an economic point of view, this is nothing short of potentially disastrous for people’s livelihoods.
Dinosaurs never left Earth, but they still traveled millions of miles through the Milky Way galaxy.
Social distancing won’t be easy, but science shows us how to make it more manageable.
Viral ‘photo’ is composite image, but other map shows true and growing size of devastation
New research suggests the ocean current that delivers warm water to Europe has a one-in-six chance of halting temporarily over the next hundred years, potentially resulting in freezing temperatures.
It’s the dawn of a new age. AI, VR, and robotics are creating the future that science-fiction writers have dreamed about.