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If you think we know it all, you’ll never be ready for the next big breakthrough. When you’re taught the scientific method, you think of a neat procedure you can […]
Can robots tell stories? In a way, yes. We’re far more likely to see robot nursery rhymes than a robot Shakespeare.
With quantum teleportation now occurring from Earth to satellites, how long is it before we can teleport a human being? “There would be no Star Trek unless there were transporter malfunctions.” –LeVar […]
NASA’s Earth observing missions aren’t the only casualty. Arguably, eliminating education is even more egregious. “First Rate People hire first rate people. Second rate people hire third rate people.” –Hermann […]
When you take off a virtual reality headset, you don’t remember seeing things, you recall experiencing them, says Kevin Kelly. VR will create a world of amazing opportunity – for us and for advertisers.
Three massive mergers threaten to put control of the world’s food in dangerously few hands.
One of cosmic inflation’s cofounders came out against it, calling it not even science. But it is… and so much more. “There’s no obvious reason to assume that the very same […]
Many sci-fi technologies will remain in the realm of fiction unless physics changes. But some experiments could uncover just that! “Imagination makes us aware of limitless possibilities. How many of us […]
New York has the same GDP as Canada, Los Angeles makes as much money in a year as Australia
The US island territory of Puerto Rico, recently devastated by category 4 hurricane Maria, remains without electricity.
A new study says there are two main categories of politically correct people – PC egalitarian and PC authoritarian.
In a world driven by technological progress, many impoverished communities are bucking the trend by successfully turning to “low-tech” and unorthodox treatments.
The biologists who revealed why zebras have black-and-white stripes now also have a theory on the black-and-white fur of giant pandas.
Is it good science in practice or just a smokescreen?
Research on five million runners shows that working out with a friend pushes you harder and longer.
If Indiana Jones and Google Earth had a love child, it would be GlobalXplorer, a “space archaeology” software by TED Prize winner Sarah Parcak.
VR is Poised to Change Many Facets of Healthcare. Find out How.
Google’s DeepMind artificial intelligence learns what it takes to win, making human-like choices in competitive situations.
Cognitive scientist Guy Claxton believes we should think of our entire body as our brain.
New Here One earbuds aim to bring enhanced human hearing to market.
There is one essential ingredient missing, argues historian Yuval Noah Harari.
Everybody wants to be happy, right? Who wouldn’t try to get as many pleasurable experiences as they could? Well, if this philosopher is right. You wouldn’t.
Last week, an asteroid fell from the sky and struck the Lake Michigan area. What if it had been a city-killer instead? “By preventing dangerous asteroid strikes, we can save […]
Is virtual reality the future of gaming? They might be, if controllers like this are anything to go by.
The idea behind bitcoin is the blockchain and it’s quite a concept.
For those who still don’t believe in global warming, the science has had it right for half a century now. “Greenhouse gases are the second most important factor for climate, after […]
A minister misspeaks – and accidentally creates an entire Latin American country
That’s not how probability works. Or asteroids, for that matter. “Bringing an asteroid back to Earth? What’s that have to do with space exploration? If we were moving outward from there, […]
Researchers discover the ways in which spiders tune and play their webs as a way to control their worlds.