Contrary to popular belief, the Amazon rainforest does not produce 20% of our planet’s oxygen.
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We’ve always used media as a means of framing reality. How will this affect our relationship with VR?
How an off-the-radar Nobel Prize brings us ever nearer to finding a major cure.
Many people, including some scientists, fear that the coming 5G WiFi revolution will harm humans. Here’s why that’s unfounded. Over the coming few years, a new set of infrastructure will […]
Researchers evaluated the best and worst ways to remove greenhouse gases from the atmosphere in a recent report.
How do you know you are real? A classic paper by philosopher Nick Bostrom argues you are likely a simulation.
In modern disinformation warfare, social media is the main battlefield.
Not everything needs a medium to travel through. If we can overcome that assumption, we don’t need the aether at all. All throughout the Universe, different types of signals propagate. Some […]
Small sample size? No underlying theory? Conflicts with all other results? It checks all the boxes. There’s nothing that’s special, on a cosmic scale, about our place in the Universe. Not […]
If they saw us as we were before the recent industrial revolution, would there be any reason to particularly care about us? All across the Universe, trillions of galaxies can be […]
Fifty years ago at UCLA, the first message was sent over the predecessor to the internet.
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What do the inventions of the future look like?
We found 10 video games that kids will love (and they’ll secretly be learning, too).
It really is the ‘glue’ that holds the Universe together, enabling structures like our own galaxy to form in the first place. One of the most puzzling and counterintuitive facts about […]
Fortnite surpassed 40 million users recently. What’s the appeal?
Digitally recording historical sites could serve as insurance in the case of disaster.
Future-minded companies are investing in soft skills and digital learning to empower their talent.
In an immersive virtual environment, what will it be like to kill?
Trump is #45 but Pence is #48 – and other strange consequences of the curious office of vice president.
Virtual reality is now approaching mainstream, but with so little research available it’s difficult to determine the dangers of VR for children.
With the interest of these tech giants, it looks like cryptocurrencies are here to stay.
Dr. Charles Grob was the first researcher granted FDA approval to study these drugs.
All of eXp Realty’s 1,500 employees work remotely on a virtual island complete with meeting rooms, a soccer field and speedboats.
The lack of tall, strong oak trees poses something of a problem for the restoration effort.
No, depression is not just a type of “affluenza” — poor people in conflict zones are more likely candidates
Ready Player One’s spectacular VR OASIS experience has us wondering how achievable it really is and when we’ll start seeing immersive VR movies.
The Harvard Medical School’s clinical professor of psychiatry wrote the book on the topic.
On the first episode of The Portal, Eric Weinstein and Peter Thiel discuss the future of education.
What does this mean for economies?