People who have a regional accent might prefer robots who speak like them over generic voices.
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Great genius is not born of lightning bolt-like moments of inspiration. In reality, perseverance plays the biggest role.
If the evolution of the Universe is a movie, what happens when we rewind it all the way backward?
Now they’re pointing the way to future battery technologies.
Outfitted with wheels and rotors, the bot can morph from a land drone into a quadcopter in seconds.
Society treats teenagers as if they’re a problem to be solved, but the truth is that we have to prepare them to solve our problems. It’s time that we change the narrative.
The very dust that blocks our view of the distant, luminous objects in the Universe is responsible for our entire existence.
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A unique combination of DNA and silica is the strongest known material for its density (but you’ll need a lot of it before you can build a suit from it).
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“Like real dreams, it does not explain, does not complete its sequences,” film critic Roger Ebert once wrote about “Mulholland Drive.”
Undiagnosed brain disease or divine inspiration? The origins of the French composer’s most provocative composition remain up for debate.
What worked before won’t necessarily work this time — and the best leaders will adapt.
Perhaps the whole Universe is the result of a vacuum fluctuation, originating from what we could call quantum nothingness.
The burial spot was found in one of the Herculaneum scrolls charred by Mt. Vesuvius.
A human hand has the power to split wooden planks and demolish concrete blocks. A trio of physicists investigated why this feat doesn’t shatter our bones.
Benjamin Breen on his greatest revelations while writing about the birth of psychedelic science.
500 sheep were slaughtered to produce the 2,060 pages of the “Codex Amiatinus,” a Latin translation of the Bible.
Ignoring the legacy of William Shakespeare is difficult for any writer, let alone one as quintessentially English as “Lord of the Rings” author J.R.R. Tolkien.
The knobby starfish skeleton has diamond-like properties and could inspire new designs for lightweight, highly resilient ceramics, with widespread applications in engineering and construction.
Some of the world’s most satisfied societies are poor, small, and remote.
All matter particles can act as waves, and massless light waves show particle-like behavior. Can gravitational waves also be particle-like?
Even if a leading theory of consciousness is wrong, it can still be useful to science.
Executive presence training can help leaders learn how to better support their people, become more self aware, communicate effectively, and more.
Sam Smith — founder and former CEO of finnCap Group — argues that a culture of empathy will help superscale any business.
The Siege of Leningrad lasted over two years and claimed nearly a million lives. It also inspired writers to record the bleak conditions in which they lived.
Detective fiction reveals how a particular society or time period looks at crime and criminal justice.
Do grim sci-fi scenarios crush our hopes for real-world growth? Author Michael Harris looks elsewhere to unblock the road to a better future.
We used to think, “That email isn’t going to write itself.” But now it can, thanks to AI. And there’s so much more, from coding to marketing.
Learn to spot the scientists who are searching for the truth rather than money, ego, or fame.