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Apple sold its first iPod in 2001, and six years later it introduced the iPhone, which ushered in a new era of personal technology.
Implicit bias may be outside your conscious control, but that doesn’t mean change is.
Society-changing ideas form through a three-stage process, argues author Michael Bhaskar.
If you think you know what sex, gender, and “the right thing to do” for trans youth and adults are, be sure it agrees with actual science.
We give it the flight plan, and it takes care of the rest. It has to. Here’s why. No matter how advanced our technology becomes, there are certain limits that can […]
If we succeed in contacting them, will that seal humanity’s doom? One of the most wondrous questions of all concerns our place in the Universe. After 13.8 billion years of […]
I also can’t conjure sounds, smells, or any other kind of sensory stimulation inside my head. This is called “aphantasia.”
With launch costs dropping and enormous numbers of new satellites filling the sky, can’t we just do it all from space?
Older people are in grave danger of being left behind.
For democracy to prosper in the long term, we need more people to reach higher levels of education.
A new study finds that some people just want privacy.
Reconnecting muscle pairs allows for better sensory feedback from the limb.
MIT Professor Sinan Aral’s new book, “The Hype Machine,” explores the perils and promise of social media in a time of discord.
The key? A computational flattening algorithm.
Apps that warn about close contact with COVID-19 cases can help relax social distancing rules.
Innovative use of blockchain tech, data trusts, algorithm assessments, and cultural shifts abound.
Researchers devise groundbreaking new methods to create and duplicate single-atom transistors for quantum computers.
Researchers decoded the love signals of lizards “spoken” through chemical signals.
Since 1957, the world’s space agencies have been polluting the space above us with countless pieces of junk, threatening our technological infrastructure and ability to venture deeper into space.
Data from LinkedIn suggests soft skills will be the most in-demand as the economy begins to rebuild and 2020 grads look for work.
A U.S. government intelligence agency develops cutting-edge tech to predict future events.
One look at the uncertainties and the assumptions changes the story tremendously. Is there intelligent life out there in the Milky Way beyond our own Solar System? If so, how […]
Thou shalt not conclude “aliens” from insufficient data. When it comes to what’s out there in this Universe, perhaps the only thing that’s greater than our cosmic ignorance is the […]
Carbon nanotubes embedded in leaves detect chemical signals that are produced when a plant is damaged.
For many, 2020 will not be remembered as a “best of” much. We don’t need to repeat the reasons here; it’s sufficient to point out that a 100-year pandemic was […]
A new study at UPenn found that effective learning includes mistakes—just not too many.
Amid the panic of the COVID-19 pandemic, are we building the surveillance states of tomorrow?
Noise causes stress. For our ancestors, it meant danger: thunder, animal roars, war cries, triggering a ‘fight or run’ reaction.
What responsibility should government authorities and Big Tech take in policing the spread of sedition-oriented content?