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In “Not Born Yesterday,” author and cognitive scientist Hugo Mercier makes the case that misinformation is overrated — and other human foibles are underrated.

Frontier, the ORNL supercomputer, used machine learning to perform 9.95 quintillion calculations per second.

A team of scientists hopes deep-earth lithium could sustain America’s vast demand for batteries. But extracting it won’t be easy.

Americans are more willing to put the greater good above their own interests today than in the 1950s.

“I believe that in the future, there will be a Francis Bacon of AI art,” Saltz tells Big Think. “We just haven’t seen that artist yet.”

The 1815 eruption of Mount Tambora is one of the reasons why Bryan Walsh sees supervolcanoes as the” single, biggest threat to the human race.”

More than 150 companies are developing flying cars. Here’s why they’re aren’t yet off the ground and darting across city skies.

In an animal study, it blocked the drug from crossing into the brain.

You could become plant food.

Poachers drove the Northern White Rhino to extinction. One scientist and her “frozen zoo” are on a mission to bring them back.

“The field is endless, but my life is limited, as are all of ours. But you do what you can with your time,” says CSO Mart Saarma.

ÄIO’s fermentation process creates healthy, sustainable oils and fats by upcycling low-value industry organics.

It’s not just fun: DNA origami has the potential to revolutionize engineering at the nanoscopic scale.

More humans are being born with a third arm artery, an example of microevolution happening right before our eyes.

The new material may make marine uranium extraction economically feasible.

Fluphenazine, once used to treat schizophrenia, is capable of blocking a compound connected to chronic pain.

A new wave of preventative cancer vaccines are set to begin trials.

The surface of asteroid Bennu is more like a plastic ball pit than the Moon.

From grave robbing to giving your own body to science.

A common weed uses uncommon types of photosynthesis.

“Personhood” credentials could cleanse the internet of bots — but are the costs worth it?

This pup puts us one step closer to resurrecting extinct species.

“Lethal autonomous weapon” sounds friendlier than “killer robot.”

This Yale researcher is creating an experimental therapy for cystic fibrosis made from viruses – and it’s working.

Why does the DMT experience feel so familiar to some people — even those who are trying the psychedelic for the first time?

It could one day fuel nuclear fusion reactors.

Shoving platelet-rich plasma up your nose might restore your sense of smell after COVID. But whether it actually works still needs to be sniffed out.

The airships have a range of 4,000 nautical miles, can fly for five days, and can cruise as high as 20,000 feet at 80 mph. They take to the skies over Spain in 2026.

“If you’re training an AI to optimize for a task, and deception is a good way for it to complete the task, then there’s a good chance that it will use deception.”

9 minutes of cruel history may cure the anti-progress delusion.