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These are the top advances in technology that will impact the world in the coming decade.
New research proposes possible origins of the interstellar object ‘Oumuamua.
From the mid-19th century, fossils were used as evidence for continental drift – but mainstream scientists didn’t buy it until the 1950s.
A new survey found that 27 percent of millennials are saving more money due to the pandemic, but most can’t stay within their budgets.
Machine learning is a powerful and imperfect tool that should not go unmonitored.
MIT team successfully tests a new method for verification of weapons reduction.
Perspective twisting books on biology, social science, medical science, cosmology, and tech.
Robots may be able to beat us at chess, but they still have trouble when it comes to soft skills — making sense of human behavior.
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During a 2005 commencement address at Stanford University, Steve Jobs related an anecdote about an experience he had shortly after dropping out of college that conveys one of the qualities […]
According to international law, the seabed belongs to everyone.
Even 13.8 billion years after the Big Bang, we can reconstruct the first 3 minutes. About 100 years ago, we began to truly understand the nature of the Universe for the […]
Technology best serves the user when organic development combines necessity with collective values.
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The system can even be designed to send alerts to employees when they’ve come too close to a coworker.
An A.I. named Aristo was able to use its language and logic skills to pass a standardized exam with flying colors.
The power to predict the next revolution keeps companies on top.
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An MIT system uses wireless signals to measure in-home appliance usage to better understand health tendencies.
Telescopes from the ground are bigger, but have to fight the atmosphere. Here’s how to win. In astronomy, seeing farther and fainter than ever before requires three simultaneous approaches. First light, […]
The latest phones have more than one million (1,048,576 to be exact) times more memory than the Apollo computer had in RAM.
A global brainstorming marathon is throwing together brilliant ideas from around the world to rapidly develop solutions to combat the coronavirus pandemic.
To prevent torturous experiments on organoids, some are calling for clearer definitions of consciousness.
Few career moves can make as immediate an impact as adding some advanced certifications to the resume. Meanwhile, the right certifications can increase your salary by as much as 40%.
From computer hacking to biohacking, Dave Asprey has embarked on a quest to reverse the aging process.
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Video meetings on the popular platform don’t seem to offer end-to-end encryption as advertised.
“We seem to be racing toward a new configuration of government and industry without having fully thought through all of the implications,” Steve Aftergood, director of the Project on Government Secrecy at the Federation of American Scientists, told MIT Technology Review.
Primordial Earth exists in a small chamber in New Jersey.
Working memory is the workhorse of cognition. Having less of it has side effects.