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Volvo is spearheading an effort to develop refuse robots and tech-enhanced dump trucks to revolutionize waste management.

How we’ll directly take pictures of Earth-like planets in the future! “We stand on a great threshold in the human history of space exploration. If life is prevalent in our neighborhood […]

Religion is part of the problem. But the bigger picture is much larger than any one book. 

Why take a picture of something you can just as easily Google?

Steven Spielberg, Tom Hanks, and Joel and Ethan Coen are bringing it all together.

Since being jailed last week for contempt of court, Kim Davis has emerged as a heroine for the conservative Christian Right.

A live blog event from Nobel Prizewinner Art McDonald. “It’s ironic: in order to observe the Sun, you need to go kilometers underground.” –Art McDonald In the 1960s, a huge […]

Sometimes, space itself comes with its own magnifying lens. “We see the world through the lens of all our experiences; that is a fundamental part of the human condition.” –Madeleine […]

A live-blog event of a fabulous public lecture given by Katie Freese on the unseen components in our Universe. “If you take everything we know… it only adds up to […]

A look at the implications of a promising discovery by researchers at Google.

And because of it, we can learn about quantum entanglement across a black hole’s event horizon. This article was contributed to Starts With A Bang by Sabine Hossenfelder, whose blog, Backreaction, […]

I can see it in your eyes. I can see it in your smile. 

Surrounding schools with green spaces may help boost cognition in kids.

One in five students will experience ‘exploding head syndrome,’ a disruptive disorder caused by the auditory neurons firing at once, waking sleepers with a loud bang.

The coming decade will see an emergence of new innovations that will keep drunk drivers off the road without the inconvenience of existing breathalyzer technology.

Researchers use Minecraft as a testing ground for a new algorithm that will help robots make better decisions.

Developing repeatable reading habits will allow you to block out the distracting noise of the outside world and focus more intently on your calming activity.

Some people have trouble making left-right distinctions. It’s not a big deal, so long as you don’t work in a medical profession.

Cars rule the roads, but how much would we save if we built better infrastructures to support bikes?

For older adults, music or background noise may hinder their efforts to focus on putting names with faces, according to a recent study.

“When I think of art, I think of beauty. Beauty is the mystery of life,” minimalist artist Agnes Martin once explained. “It is not in the eye; it is in my mind. In our minds there is awareness of perfection.” In the first comprehensive survey of her art at the Tate Modern, in London, England, the exhibition Agnes Martin strives to guide viewers to that “awareness of perfection” Martin strove to embody in her minimalist, geometrically founded art. Rather than the cold, person-less brand of modernist minimalism, Martin’s work personifies the warm humanity of Buddhist editing down to essentials. At the same time, surveying Martin’s art and thinking allows us to revisit the feminist critiques of minimalism and shows how Martin’s stepping back from the bustle of the New York art scene freed her to find “a beautiful mind” — not just for women, but for everyone.

The innovative design of a Tokyo kindergarten fosters physical activity, learning, play, autonomy, and the feeling of community. 

New York neuroticism is the obverse of Kantian tranquility: harried, unsatisfied, anxious, perturbed. A life filled with worry and noise rather than one steeped in calm and virtue. But is this necessarily a bad thing? 

Connecting Austria, Germany and Denmark, Autobahn A7 is the longest motorway in Germany and one of the most important North-South links between Scandinavia and central Europe. When it was constructed, […]

Pop-up skyscrapers constructed using pre-assembled pieces could forever change the way we perceive city planning and construction.

Massive data centers in the world require massive amounts of energy, not just for processing power, but also for cooling. While big companies like Google, Facebook, and Microsoft are looking into a variety of ways to make the cooling process greener, one particularly clever solution is coming from a Dutch startup called Nerdalize. 

Director Shiho Fukada sheds light on a growing problem in Japan, internet café refugees. For most temporary workers, a stall in one of these net cafés is all they can afford.

The Urban Gun-Detection System helps police pinpoint gunshot locations, but privacy advocates worry about the secondary uses this listening technology holds.

Industrial innovations in the late 19th and early 20th centuries enabled “the largest hunt in human history” out of which several whale populations were almost eradicated.

“More noise occurs from a single man shouting than a hundred thousand who are quiet.”