What will the city of the future look like? Alphabet’s Sidewalk labs plans to find out. The company will soon present plans to Alphabet CEO Larry Page for building a techno-utopia from the ground up.
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Most teaching textbooks aren’t evidence-based according to a new report, so where should teachers go to keep their skills up to date?
The brain seems to be orderly arranged in ever complex and elegant ways, unique to each individual.
Biocentrism is a theory that sees our lives as a string on unconnected Nows with no real time or death.
Ultra-deep field? Move over; there’s a new deepest-view of all! “In other words, theory attempts to segregate the minimum number of possible worlds which must include the actual world we inhabit. […]
Without colliding with anything since the Universe was 1 second old, these neutrinos still pack a punch! “When you see how fragile and delicate life can be, all else fades […]
Researchers estimate how many humans have ever lived.
Tinder now offers free testing for sexually transmitted infections to users.
Why we’re positive the Universe isn’t all there is, and what the different possibilities for a Multiverse are. “Go, then. There are other worlds than these.” –Stephen King When you […]
Don’t believe everything you read on the internet, even if “science” is in the title. “Youth always tries to fill the void, an old man learns to live with it.” –Mark Z. […]
The gun industry is in the business of selling its products. Exploiting our belief system is part of its corporate model.
A company has received approval to try and partially revive brain-dead patients in India.
Neither happiness nor success “can be pursued,” says Viktor Frankl. These states of being must “ensue…as the unintended side-effect of one’s personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself.”
Infectious disease doctors in Brazil — as well as mothers of infants born with microcephaly — are using WhatsApp to diagnose and cope with the Zika-caused illness.
When the next big solar flare comes for Earth, will we be ready? “Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to […]
The 750 GeV particle that the LHC thought it saw? A sham. And we all should have known. “The first principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are […]
Researchers are working on a pill to mitigate the effects of alcohol. Is it a price worth paying?
One writer’s journey through a video game that can only be completed by writing.
A recent study out of Australia has crunched data over a 29-year timespan and found no correlation between cellphone usage and brain cancer. Hooray!
Advocates masquerading as scientists to try and establish credibility for biased claims do the public, and science, serious harm. And journalists who fail to call them out and report biased studies as fact compound the damage.
With $100 million invested towards it and an incredible concept behind it, could this be the start of interstellar travel? “Fundamental physics is like an art more or less. It’s […]
Siddhartha Mukherjee explores the genetics of sex and sexual identity in his new book, The Gene: An Intimate History.
Is AI about to take over? Or does it struggle to be as smart as a toddler?
If they change and distort spacetime as the ripples pass through, could what was once inside actually get out? “Find a place inside where there’s joy, and the joy will burn […]
A report from the National Council on Teacher Quality has found teacher-training textbooks aren’t based in evidence.
These are some of the strangest, most mysterious books ever written.
Diagnosis, treatment, research, patient compliance, and follow-up—all of these are going to be revolutionized by artificial intelligence (AI). Better treatment options and outcomes, and better results are on the way, but challenges remain.
Penguins in Antarctica are changing their migration patterns. Scientists aren’t sure why — and they need your help to figure it out. And you can do it from the comfort of your home.
The sender didn’t have a name nor an address for his letter. So he drew a map instead.
We often now picture our minds in unsound ways. They’re built to resonate to poetry. We’ve all but lost the memory of poetry’s historic role in molding minds (that’s the unsung pretext of Plato’s poetry ban). Poetry is a key cognitive technology , so powerful it was the Internet of its time.