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Four out of every five American adults and children are not moving enough.
The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has been working for years to preserve the estimated 10,000 videos of nuclear bomb tests made by the U.S. government during the Cold War.
Is The Goblin’s orbit a breadcrumb leading us to Planet X?
Like it or not, agreements made between hackers in Germany, Prague, and elsewhere could reconfigure the economy… and a frightening new world.
Artificial intelligence has so far replaced more menial labor, but could it one day soon come for the more analytical positions in the economy like writers and reporters? What will become of journalism?
Two tech titans can’t agree on the one thing that could come to define our times: A.I. What do they have to say on the matter?
Think you make moral judgments objectively? Think again.
Artificial intelligence will soon be powerful enough to operate autonomously, how should we tell it to act? What kind of ethics should we teach it?
A set of new studies that used large-scale computer simulations found that life might be more common throughout other universes than previously thought.
The Canadian professor takes issue with blocking free speech, but is he part of the problem?
She’s not held back by other animals’ numeracy limitations.
The pressure of getting into a top-tier college seems to have influenced the ways teenagers sort themselves into cliques.
Nurturing several relationships at once can empower us to build a life so rich that when we lose one love among many, we don’t feel as if we’ve lost ‘everything.’
They actually have a quasicrystal-like structure
Using a machine-learning system known as a deep neural network, MIT researchers have created the first model that can identify a musical genre just like a human would.
A primer on the amazing possibilities of mixed reality, augmented reality, and virtual reality technology.
You can learn good design through these books. Most of which is avoiding bad design.
The mathematician and codebreaker invented a water filter that only just got build recently. Could it make the ocean’s drinkable?
Who would have thought that endlessly comparing your life to others would make you feel bad?
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Sometimes, the simplest questions of all are the most difficult to meaningfully answer. If you were to take any tiny piece of matter in our known Universe and break it […]
Ultra-low-power sensors carrying genetically engineered bacteria can detect gastric bleeding.
Are you a ‘Big-Endian’ or a ‘Little-Endian’? Swift’s satirical take on religious wars gave us the jargon to describe our different date and address formats.
MIT researchers have designed a fleet of autonomous boats that offer high manoeuvrability and precise control.
Specific self-driving car systems are now being developed for urban and rural settings.
Artificial intelligence threatens to take over our entire world. And that’s only the 2nd most scary aspect about this documentary shared by Elon Musk.
Lasers, mirrors, and computational advances can all work together to push ground-based astronomy past even the limits of Hubble. One of the most profoundly remarkable properties about our atmosphere is that […]
Not so long ago, we had better maps of Mars than of Antarctica. Now, Antarctica is the best-mapped continent in the world.