Why the road to self-driving vehicles is paved with smarter “dumb” cars.
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Creative people are better able to engage brain systems that don’t typically work together.
There are 40 billion billion black holes in the universe. Here’s how our Solar System stacks up against ten of them.
33 years ago, the theoretical biologist Robert Rosen offered an answer to the question “Is life computable?”
A golden new era of business is within our reach — provided that we harness AI’s potential while mitigating the risks.
From the laying out of the body plan to the organization and functioning of our nervous system, cells rule gene expression and make us who and what we are.
Once activated, the CRISPR-Cas12a2 system goes on a rampage, chopping up DNA and RNA indiscriminately, causing cell death.
The giant impact theory suggests our Moon was formed from proto-Earth getting a Mars-sized strike. An exoplanet system shows it’s plausible.
Entrenched business wisdom says that community-led economic systems are pure fantasy. Douglas Rushkoff disagrees.
Despite being the closest planet to the Sun, Mercury “only” reaches 800 °F at its hottest. Venus is always hotter, even at night.
The Earth that exists today wasn’t formed simultaneously with the Sun and the other planets. In some ways, we’re quite a latecomer.
The transformational change driven by AI will elevate neurodiversity inclusion as an organizational asset, argues Maureen Dunne.
When we’re stressed, our hormones and nervous system produce all sorts of odors.
Laser-guided lightning systems could someday offer much greater protection than lightning rods.
These 5 human development principles could completely change the way we think about learning and potential.
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Imagine going on a tour through the human circulatory system as a tiny cell. That is just one example of education in the metaverse.
How do scientists measure and define life in the natural world? Dr. Lee Cronin gives us a definition, in 4 minutes:
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From landscaped gardens to road systems, the Persians were among the first to create many things we still enjoy today.
It’s knowledgeable, confident, and behaves human-like in many ways. But it’s not magic that powers AI though; it’s just math and data.
The Santa Fe Institute is a cradle of modern research. Our host Kmele meets some of the brilliant minds who work there.
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To prevent overloading the memory system, the brain may have a mechanism that tosses out certain types of memories.
It could perform a speech recognition task with 78% accuracy.
Some scientists think we should allow our bodies to more harmlessly live with pathogens until they’re cleared from our systems.
Profluent’s new platform is like ChatGPT for genetic technology.
Earth is the Solar System’s only known inhabited planet. Could Venus, if its phosphine signal is real, be our second world with life?
Physicists have increasingly begun to view life as information-processing “states of matter” that require special consideration.
Boys are four times as likely as girls to develop autism. Girls are nearly twice as likely to experience depression. The immune system may be a player in these and other brain-health disparities.
People believe that slow and deliberative thinking is inherently superior to fast and intuitive thinking. The truth is more complicated.
In our Solar System, even the two brightest planets frequently align in our skies. But only rarely is it spectacularly visible from Earth.
Massive objects like black holes, stars, and rogue planets routinely pass near our Solar System. An ensuing comet storm could destroy us.