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The devastation left by Hurricane Sandy has reignited a long-controversial discussion about whether to maintain artificial beaches, especially in light of global climate predictions and diminishing sand reserves.
Flexible displays have been here for a while, but the other components of a device need to be flexible as well. 2013 may very well see their debut.
If there is a growing consensus that video games do not cause violence and can be used as valuable learning tools, there are also challenges ahead for an industry that is widely seen as a boys club.
By fitting a computer, a camera, and a projector into the spot where the bulb would go, the lamp can display information onto a surface, and recognize and respond to user contact with that surface.
Do you want to learn to play the guitar? Speak Spanish? Lose weight? Then set aside $100 of your pretax income to donate to the Westboro Baptist Church.
The Democrats, at their convention, stood so stridently for the rights of the liberated single woman that they offered the Republicans the opportunity to counter with a defense of the […]
Today, predictive analytics’ all-encompassing scope already reaches the very heart of a functioning society. Several mounting ingredients promise to spread prediction even more pervasively: bigger data, better computers, wider familiarity, and advancing science.
The title Lost in the Cosmos is meant to be a correction to Carl Sagan’s “splendid picture book” Cosmos, which Percy understands as a failed self-help book. Sagan aims to get […]
A simplified color-coding system represents the latest attempt to affect consumers’ food choices. However, it’s unlikely that such a system will be accepted beyond individual institutions or city governments.
Despite our growing understanding of how the human brain works, myths persist among the public at large and even among educators who express an interest in neuroscience.
An aging man, a physician, learns he has Alzheimers. Determined to avoid the worst of it, he assembles a lethal collection of pills. As the next few years pass, the […]
We are very good at generating data. We are just learning how to utilize it, but the mobile health revolution is one of the most promising applications we have seen in this field.
The strange birth of America’s two ‘radio nations’
Transit projects — none of which is at a resort — are in various stages of completion worldwide. In the US, designers from one company will soon meet with Austin city officials.
Why does the Purple Line in this alternate-universe railway map terminate in Quincy, Illinois?
The dwarf planet, one of five that exist at the outer edges of the solar system, recently passed in front of a star, allowing astronomers their first shot at getting some really good data.
I was shocked to see a video where a Mesa, AZ principal forced two boys to hold hands as a punishment for fighting (Per AV’s comments below, the boys were […]
Building on groundbreaking work done at MIT in 2005, researchers have created muscle which can be activated with light, setting the scene for a new generation of robotics.
To keep revenues coming in, some content sites are experimenting with the micropayment model, in which the majority of a chosen article is made available only after the reader pays a small fee.
Economist Nassim Nicholas Taleb, one of the strongest critics of economic policy preceding the 2007 financial crash, says we should embrace volatility, not protect ourselves against it.
Enjoy the inauguration of Barack Obama, Democrats: it may be the last opportunity to cheer a president from your party for quite a while.
What’s the Latest Development? How effective can a smartphone app really be at improving your health? That depends, but some app producers are making claims so outlandish that regulators say […]
I’ve noticed a pattern when speaking to friends about creationism: I say the word, and in response receive a squinted eye and disgruntled head shake, followed by, ‘But no one […]
After September 11, 2001, Congress gave extraordinary powers to the executive branch to combat terrorism. Is the pendulum finally swinging back?
In honor of Earth Day, I wanted to share an article written by my former colleague Ross Robertson for EnlightenNext magazine called “A Brighter Shade of Green: Rebooting Environmentalism for the 21stCentury.” […]
My electric toothbrush kept me up half the night like a squalling newborn. The trouble began yesterday. My husband and I were sitting downstairs when we heard a thunderous rumbling […]
My electric toothbrush kept me up half the night like a squalling newborn. The trouble began yesterday. My husband and I were sitting downstairs when we heard a thunderous rumbling […]
When the new BiblioTech library opens in San Antonio, Texas later this year, it will become the nation’s first “bookless public library” — everything is going to be digital, the library will rent out […]
One of the inventions that may be realized by advances in nanotechnology is the creation of a Von Neumann probe, which is essentially a virus, a self-replicating probe that can […]
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