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Virtual reality continues to blur the line between the physical and the digital, and it will change our lives forever.

Argentina’s black market for cash is embracing crypto — but it’s not what crypto proponents expected.

It doesn’t help that Hollywood has cast the ‘coder’ as a socially challenged, type-first-think-later hacker, inevitably white and male.

Can computers do calculations in multiple universes? Scientists are working on it. Step into the world of quantum computing.

Even the most brilliant mind in history couldn’t have achieved all he did without significant help from the minds of others.

The key? A computational flattening algorithm.

Mind Bank Ai is the newest entrant in an ambitious idea: using AI to create a kind of immortality.

Progress got derailed somewhere between indoor plumbing and the flying car. Why?

There’s a lot we can do with current technology to help stem the tide of climate change, but future technology may help even more.

Awe-inspiring moments can be found in our daily lives, and they have surprising benefits for our health and sense of well-being.

You’ve spent almost a decade gaining extremely specialized skills. But that’s ok; your value is greater than you realize.

What makes something a hit or a flop? Sit and ponder that one, and you’ll find it’s a stumper. At first, the answer seems obvious: popularity. That’s not quite right […]

A study looks at how to use nuclear detonations to prevent asteroids from hitting Earth.

Is feeling wretched actually helpful?

The AI remembers that you are 32 years old and like to eat sushi, except on Thursdays.

We’re safeguarding the world’s seeds in the Arctic, why not our most precious data?

The metaverse has the potential to be revolutionary, for both good and bad. Here is how we can maximize the former and prevent the latter.

If a large asteroid strikes Earth, it has the potential to release an enormous amount of energy, leading to local or even global catastrophes. The strike that led to the […]

For Black Hole Week, NASA released a mesmerizing animation of what a black hole probably looks like.

“Interacting” with nature through virtual reality applications had especially strong benefits, according to the study.

Automation technologies manufacture goods or provide labor with minimal human intervention. They can trace their origins as far back as the 16th century—and arguably further—but didn’t take off until the […]

More than 70% of college students procrastinate

New book explores a future populated with robot helpers.

The study suggests scientists are underestimating the number of animal species that could generate the next novel coronavirus.

A black woman most have never heard of made GPS possible. Over the span of a single lifetime, the world has changed in ways that would have been virtually unimaginable […]

For now, artificial intelligence is nothing to fear. But as it rapidly develops in the years ahead?

Sometimes the value of soft skills feels almost secretive—like some scrap of knowledge handed down through an ancient society of corporate recruiters. Of course, that’s not the case or that’s […]

Do you sound friendly? Hostile? And which voice would be more likely to buy something?

How close are we to human teleportation? Successes in quantum teleportation experiments abound.

Almost all experts agree that coding will become nearly as ubiquitous as literacy in the future. But the nature of coding in the future may be very different.