Biologists debate adding a controversial new aspect to the understanding of evolution.
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As if the north pole of Saturn weren’t weird enough already. “Cassini is different — it’s a mission of enormous scope and is being conducted in grand style. It is much more sophisticated […]
A new study looks at our comfort in being around other people as a byproduct of evolution.
Stanford scientists create technology that could help severely paralyzed people communicate.
Physicists discover strikingly similar structures in human cells and neutron stars.
Actors try to make sense out of an AI-written screenplay in the movie Sunspring.
As driverless cars gain increasing acceptance among the public, what social values, industries, and activities will be displaced, or even made as obsolete as car ownership itself?
A researcher is experimenting with an artificial hippocampus to learn how to strengthen and store memories.l
When we asked Bill Nye the Science Guy if he thinks we are living in a computer-generated simulation, he turned to some basic scientific principles to justify his answer.
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Are you a maverick or are you a mouse? Author Julian Guthrie brings us one of the great entrepreneurial adventure stories of our time in ‘How to Make a Spaceship’.
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Yale researchers create a groundbreaking device that utilizes two key concepts in quantum physics.
Amazon announces a new type of smart brick-and-mortar shopping with no checkouts.
Would you be cryo-preserved, knowing that if you survived, you would wake up hundreds of years later?
New research on student learning with technology and computers.
Only in 1992 was science able to calculate the remotest part of the ocean
Researchers discover the ways in which spiders tune and play their webs as a way to control their worlds.
Apple’s removal of the iPhones 3.4 mm headphone jack is causing an uproar as part of technology’s inexorable march forward.
If you were betting on LIGO, you bet wrong. Just like everybody else. “‘Topology is destiny,’ he said, and put the drawers on. One leg at a time.” –Neal Stephenson One […]
Want the speed of light, the fine-structure constant or others to change? There’s a new obstacle to overcome. “The mystery about α is actually a double mystery. The first mystery — the […]
How far are you willing to trust technology? Make a call, share a photo, find a good restaurant, pay a bill, vacuum the floor? But, will you trust autonomous systems with your life and the life others? Autonomous vehicles will be making decisions for us at 60mph and more — the question facing us may no longer be technological but social. How much do you trust a robot?
Rob Bell examines the two responses to our rapidly changing world, covering politics, the internet, tribalism and race relations.
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For years we’ve wondered if educational programs are the reason for the disparity between women and men in engineering, but what if there’s another reason?
Mark Zuckerberg recently reiterated that brain-to-brain interfacing is our species future. Today, scientists can have participants move things on a screen with their mind and signal to one another across vast distances. It may someday have therapeutic uses for ADHD, give us sense experiences not akin to our species, and even allow advertisers to invade our minds.
The advertising legend Ryan Holiday, who maintains a humble profile, speaks to the difference between confidence and ego, exposing the latter as a thin veneer concealing weakness.
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Something isn’t right about the Universe without something extra. So why can’t scientists agree on what that “extra” thing is? “All we know so far is what doesn’t work.” –Richard Feynman […]
Creative director at Apple for 12 years, and the man responsible for introducing the lowercase-i into Apple’s product line, Ken Segall discusses the present and future of Apple computers.
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And even with them all in place, what do we still not know? “The joy of life consists in the exercise of one’s energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of […]
Neurotechnology pioneers envision an expanded future for humanity straight out of science fiction.
No one is right 100% of the time. Even the greatest genius of all. “The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything.” –Theodore Roosevelt […]
The highest energy collisions go beyond any collider… and may hold a fantastic secret! This article was written by Sabine Hossenfelder. Sabine is a theoretical physicist specialized in quantum gravity. […]