Facebook disclosed to Congress last week that it gave 61 companies special access to user data in 2015, a revelation that differs from the social media company’s past claims.
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Intelligent aliens, if they exist in the galaxy or the Universe, might be detectable from a variety of signals: electromagnetic, from planet modification, or because they’re spacefaring. But we haven’t […]
There’s a reason why all the world seems to be hiding within the borders of Maine.
This is a remarkably rare case of non-human primate tool use in the wild. We’re witnessing another species dawn of their Stone Age.
CEO time has never been studied in this kind of detail.
Louie Psihoyos — the director of the Academy Award-winning documentary The Cove — is scouting out locations for his latest project, a real-life dolphin sanctuary.
America is the world’s #2 exporter – and that makes trade wars everything but “good and easy to win”
The cycle of poverty can be hard to break, will early childhood interventions based on new neuroscience be the silver bullet we need?
Multitasking has been shown to diminish our ability to learn, stress us out, and kill our productivity. Here are some techniques to limit multitasking and help us regain our lost time.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s surprising win over an establishment politician underscores the rising passion of the far left.
Has the constant barrage of political news got you down? Yale University historian Timothy Snyder has a solution.
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As we’ve come to expect, conspiracy theorists and fringe Christian evangelicals are heralding the July 27 blood moon as a sign of the imminent apocalypse. But what is the blood moon prophecy, and why does it appeal to a certain type of believer?
The accelerated expansion of the Universe is one of the greatest puzzles today. Could this out-of-the-box idea explain it without dark energy? When it comes to our quest to understand the […]
Startups create the tech and products that set the tone for our collective future. It’s pivotal that founders lead by example to make diversity and inclusion a priority—and reap the rewards.
A new study suggests that it’s possible to replace anxiety-producing unpleasant memories with new ones implanted under hypnosis.
Have you ever eaten a chocolate bar that was worth its weight in gold? If you lived in ancient Mesoamerica, you might have done it every day.
Amazon announced on Thursday it had signed a deal to acquire PillPack, an online pharmacy that organizes prescription medication by the dose and delivers it to customers.
Despite little clinical evidence of efficacy, a growing number of parents are giving their children supplements that could prove dangerous.
Sabine Hossenfeder has some problems with how it’s practiced today.
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To help dramatize the need for us to open our minds about the potential nature of extraterrestrial life, experimental philosopher Jonathon Keats has built instruments and composed music for aliens.
Sports teams have yet to pour a celebratory cooler of chocolate milk over their coach after winning the big game.
Bernardo Kastrup proposes a new ontology he calls “idealism” built on panpsychism, the idea that everything in the universe contains consciousness. He solves problems with this philosophy by adding a new suggestion: The universal mind has dissociative identity disorder.
20 years ago, we discovered that distant galaxies were accelerating away from us. Here’s how the Universe makes it happen. Matter and energy tell spacetime how to curve; curved spacetime tells […]
Half of all the antibiotics produced in the United States are given to animals to help them grow faster, should we stop this for the sake of our health?
To spur action on climate change, we need a story of mythical proportions.
The James Webb Space Telescope could mean finding a human-sustaining planet in another galaxy.
A fresh take on the decades-old Drake equation incorporates new factors and greater uncertainty, suggesting a high likelihood that humanity is alone in the universe.
Young workers experience insufficient opportunities for work experience, a mismatch between work and education, a lack of career management skills and scant entry-level jobs.
A primer on the amazing possibilities of mixed reality, augmented reality, and virtual reality technology.
Name one French coastline. Great. Now name another. Can’t? Here are all 36.