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It’s tempting to think of the mind as a layer that sits on top of more primitive cognitive structures. We experience ourselves as conscious beings, after all, in a way […]
Discover the peril and potential of an automated robotic world.
Both panoramic and detailed, this infographic manages to show both the size and distribution of world religions.
A robotic teddy bear could improve physical and emotional outcomes in pediatric patients.
By 2003, General Electric, now better known as GE, had a reputation problem. Its long-time image as a company at the forefront of a sparkling future had been shaken. After […]
Our outer Solar System, from Jupiter to Neptune, isn’t unique after all. In the early 1990s, scientists began detecting the first planets orbiting stars other than the Sun: exoplanets. The easiest […]
What does the power of the online mob hold for tyranny and conformity?
Despite being free to users, Facebook seems to have a monopoly on our speech, our data, and our lives.
It may create the conditions for further inequality.
A climate catastrophe 2 billion years ago almost ended life on Earth. Here’s the biggest lesson of all. Although it was more than 4½ billion years ago that planet Earth formed, […]
It’s almost time to ‘spring forward.’
Only 8 worlds make the astronomical cut as planets. Here are the 10 fascinating bodies that didn’t make it. Astronomically, bodies within the Solar System must achieve three criteria in order […]
Who should sit atop the iron throne? Let your DNA decide. Here on Earth, we hold one important truth to be self-evident above all others: that all humans are created equal. […]
First contact movies had their Golden Age in 1980s America – now they’re going global.
The country’s paperless system serves as a model to other nations.
Upstreamism advocate Rishi Manchanda calls us to understand health not as a “personal responsibility” but a “common good.”
In a breakthrough for nuclear fusion research, scientists at China’s Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) reactor have produced temperatures necessary for nuclear fusion on Earth.
It’s one factor that can help explain the religiosity gap.
Think the future isn’t already here with us? Think again!
Cryptocurrencies have had their time in the spotlight. Now it’s time to focus on solving bigger problems.
Russia’s famed intelligence agency was often successful in getting American secrets.
It’s rare but spectacular when the Moon passes in front of another planet. Here’s how to see it. From our perspective on Earth, the night sky appears virtually unchanged with the […]
Hyperloop Transportation Technologies recently unveiled the Quintero One, a hyperloop passenger capsule that can travel at a top speed of about 760 mph.
Here are four separate ways you can prove it, even 50 years after-the-fact. 50 years ago, on July 20, 1969, humanity took our first footsteps on the surface of another […]
That’s a sharp increase from the 1960s when it took the same share of scientists an average of 35 years to drop out of academia.
For older adults, playing video games isn’t just a way for older adults to keep in touch with the younger generation — it might be also be a way to stay in touch with memory itself.
Ban Ki-moon recently criticized the state of the U.S. healthcare system as part of his work with The Elders, an international organization founded by Nelson Mandela.