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A new startup has a method for preserving a brain’s memories when it’s frozen for future uploading.
It will be the most extreme test of Einstein’s General Relativity ever. And we already have the data. With every year that goes by, the total amount of knowledge that humanity […]
It wasn’t just the Milky Way and Andromeda two billion years ago. Here in the Local Group, our two largest galaxies dominate: Andromeda and the Milky Way. Our Local Group of […]
Is Google’s moral compass broken?
Silicon Valley might just be missing the most important aspect of being human: the ability to feel.
Citizen scientists are advancing scientific knowledge.
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Mindfulness at work has been picking up traction in western businesses and organizations in recent years. Major companies like Google, General Mills, Apple, Intel, and Nike are embracing mindfulness in […]
The top 10 tech companies spend big bucks acquiring innovative startups and their brilliant technologies.
Getting up from your computer for frequent breaks might help you retain information better, new research shows.
Do our minds have quantum structures that give rise to consciousness? Sir Roger Penrose, one of the world’s most famous scientists, believes this and can explain how he thinks it works.
We look at the most common New Year’s resolutions and get expert advice to help you check them off 2019’s to-do list.
Traditional buildings were designed to provide protection against a savage world. But the world has changed. We need to develop a more sustainable relationship with the environment, and semi-permeable architecture allows us to do that.
A new study from Australia states that most drivers don’t think distracted driving is an issue. Driving data prove otherwise.
As the Event Horizon Telescope prepares to release its first results, we can expect not just one, but two black hole images. What does a black hole actually look like? For […]
Visiting scholar James Timbie says that the artificial intelligence revolution will involve humans and machines working together, with the best results coming from humans supported by intelligent machines.
World class athletes, musicians, and chess masters use a similar technique.
Despite doubts from the healthcare industry, Watson recently identified a surprisingly high number of potential cancer treatments for real-life patients.
These are the occupations that attract the most serial killers and psychopaths.
Half of all blindness in humans is due to macular degeneration. There looks to be a cure.
The human brain is an incredible marvel of evolution. But what’s even more incredible is how this supercomputer in your head is able to occasionally make such dumb mistakes.
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A new study discovers the “liking gap” — the difference between how we view others we’re meeting for the first time, and the way we think they’re seeing us.
This research is helping scientists overcome a fundamental machine learning problem.
Be glad your name isn’t attached to any of these bad ideas.
Today, we are in the golden age of meltdowns. More and more of our systems are in the danger zone, but our ability to manage them hasn’t quite caught up.
The EIC is likely to deepen our understanding of the universe in ways we can’t fathom.
A new coating material has been developed for fighting healthcare-associated infections (HAI) using overhead lighting. It’s a new coating for hospital walls and surfaces that uses quantum dots and crystal violet to kill germs.
There’s a new, highly secure way to vote and count ballots, and it’s just been tested in a real-world election.