A record-breaking 515 contestants competed in the 2018 Scripps National Spelling Bee where they faced words like Soubresaut, Condottiere, and Amyloid.
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Vision restoration is the main goal, but the CustomFlex Artificial Iris could also be used for cosmetic purposes.
An eighth-grader from the Dallas area in the winner of the 2018 Scripps National Spelling Bee after correctly spelling words like condottiere, ankyloglossia, and jagüey.
“Our country doesn’t do many things well, but when it comes to big occasions, no one else comes close,” so claimed an instructor I heard at the gym this week. […]
Walking all over the English countryside picking up trash, the genitalia of the spotted hyena, and many other subjects comical and deadly serious.
Can we make progress in a world in which we don’t trust our institutions?
Walmart announced Wednesday that it will pay for its 1.4 million employees to attend college, a move that could help the company’s tainted image.
Artificial intelligence will soon be powerful enough to operate autonomously, how should we tell it to act? What kind of ethics should we teach it?
Google Chrome boasts 310 million active users across the world, and it might just kill off the usage of passwords.
Professional learning programs are important to any business or organization because they help to enhance your existing workforce by instilling new knowledge and skills. When it comes to creating learning […]
President Donald Trump signed a ‘right-to-try’ bill on Wednesday, but some think the new law will do more harm than good.
Everyone in the Universe needs a break sometimes. They say that all work and no play make Jack a dull boy, and with very few exceptions, I’ve been working hard […]
Cybersecurity costs billions of dollars each year. Building on a blockchain could solve many of our security problems.
People who displayed higher intelligence were 28% more likely to wear glasses.
Today, there is a crisis of trust in science. Many people – including politicians and, yes, even presidents – publicly express doubts about the validity of scientific findings. Meanwhile, scientific […]
The updated recommendations come in the wake of research that shows an alarming rise of colon and rectal cancer among young adults.
Late night texts provide insights on America’s recreational drug use, documenting good and bad times with meth, cocaine, heroin, pills, marijuana, LSD, and ecstasy.
Ultra-low-power sensors carrying genetically engineered bacteria can detect gastric bleeding.
Kim Kardashian is meeting with Jared Kushner and President Donald Trump on Wednesday to talk prison reform and the case of Alice Marie Johnson, who’s service life for a nonviolent crime.
The popular sleep drug Ambien, which Rosanne Barr appears to have taken recreationally, can dredge up what you already have in your brain.
Common routers include devices made by Netgear and Linksys; this is a major malware outbreak.
In most countries around the world, some jobs are by law reserved for men only and forbidden for women.
A new study argues that the working class are not prejudiced against immigrants and are more likely to help people.
There’s a chicken and egg thing going on here when it comes to having a mood disorder and discordant circadian rhythms.
There really should be life out there beyond Earth. Here’s how we’ll find it. There are three very different ways humanity is searching for alien life beyond Earth. We can directly […]
Many tests have reported an ‘anomalous thrust’ where there should be none. A researcher has finally shown where everyone else has messed up. One of the ultimate dreams of humans everywhere […]
Fortnite surpassed 40 million users recently. What’s the appeal?
Does smoking marijuana make it less likely that couples will have children? A study out of Boston University has arrived at a clear conclusion.
After revealing new policies, Starbucks closed more than 8,000 of its stores Tuesday afternoon so some 175,000 employees could undergo racial bias training.
Support for increased gun control in the U.S. is slowly rising, but one group of Americans seems to change their minds faster than others.