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A report from the New York Times raises questions over how the teletherapy startup Talkspace handles user data.
Participation in community science programs has skyrocketed during COVID-19 lockdowns.
Or is ‘new space’ created in between the gaps of the ‘old’ space? It’s been almost 100 years since humanity first reached a revolutionary conclusion about our Universe: space itself doesn’t […]
When we limit the clash of ideas, we ultimately hinder progress for the entire society.
Understanding the factors behind recent growth could help us better approach inequality.
Drop sodium in water, and a violent, even explosive reaction will occur. But quantum physics is needed to explain why.
The Universe is expanding, and the Hubble constant tells us how fast. But how can it be a constant if the expansion is accelerating?
Masks are great, but what happens when we try to throw out a billion masks at once?
In recent years, women have made incredible strides in the business world. Forty-one women currently lead Fortune 500 companies. While that remains an unacceptably low percentage (8 percent) overall, it […]
The system is basically facial recognition technology, but for cars.
If our goal is to effect the greatest possible progress, what would it look like to approach this holistically? What might need to dispositionaly in how we approach solving our most important problems—at an individual level, a community level, or at a civilizational or global one? We asked our experts to think big picture about how what new thinking would be required to create a larger pro-progress framework.
A new study from Ohio State University details implicit bias.
Zircons in a Martian meteorite widens the possible timeframe for life on Mars.
For the past 150+ years, the big ones have all missed us. But at some point, our good luck will run out.
Start fighting back against planned obsolescence.
Everything else in the universe is either a particle or field. Dark energy behaves as neither, and it may be a property inherent to space itself.
Phobos and Deimos only have two explanations, and neither one adds up.
There are an estimated two trillion galaxies within the observable Universe. Most are already unreachable, and the situation only gets worse.
If there are human-sized creatures walking around on other planets, would we be able to view them directly?
Study finds quantum entanglement could, in principle, give a slight advantage in the game of blackjack.
The thrills and horrors of strange heavenly bodies condensed into one attractive snapshot.
If you want to understand the Universe, cosmologically, you just can’t do it without the Friedmann equation. With it, the cosmos is yours.
The great theoretical physicist Steven Weinberg passed away on July 23. This is our tribute.
Humans are particularly prone to shiver when a group does or thinks the same thing at the same time.
See the most detailed survey of the southern sky ever carried out using radio waves.
When Tal Golesworthy was told he was at risk of his aorta bursting, he wasn’t impressed with the surgery on offer – so he came up with his own idea.
Six visionary science fiction authors on the social impact of their work.
A non-profit dedicated to science communication offers to connect learners with over 11,000 scientists.
New documents confirm that the government agency—one of many—has been using a tracking company.