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With patients’ help, researchers in the UK created a digital avatar of the voice, which then was used to slowly help the patients regain control over their lives.
By altering genes that influence mosquitoes’ response to odors, researchers at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute have created an insect that won’t necessarily choose a human to sting first.
A project currently underway at the Pentagon — intriguingly named “Plan X” — aims to make attacking enemies’ computer systems so easy that “even a white-haired general” could do it.
By using infrared beams of warmth to target people as they walk through an open space, MIT scientists are challenging conventional thinking about indoor climate control.
Venezuela has passed a landmark labor law for stay-at-home mothers. Full-time mothers will be able to collect a pension, in recognition of “non-salaried work traditionally done by women.” Meanwhile, in […]
The question is not so much work-life balance, but is rest versus effort.
We need whitespace because that’s really often when our most creative ideas emerge, when our real desires for our lives can speak.
We resist our callings because they call us out of our habitual lives.
It is more important for us to know that we are faring well in comparison to our peers than it is for us to ensure that we do better for ourselves.
Thanks to improved technology and dedicated guides, the amount of traffic on the world’s tallest mountain has increased to the point where climbers are encountering lines and bottlenecks.
YouTube user styropyro, aka, The DIY Laser Guy, has made a DIY lightsaber that can burn through a variety of objects.
Asteroid mining company Planetary Resources has announced a Kickstarter campaign designed to help fund the building and launch of a telescope that the public could use to observe objects in space.
Michael Malice is one of those uniquely New York characters. An immigrant from the former Soviet Union, the thirty-six year old with spikey hair, cunning eyes, and a constant mischievous […]
Manhattanhedge is a two-day event when the setting Sun aligns precisely with the Manhattan street grid.
New research reveals that the salmon can pass modified genes to its hybrid offspring. That offspring happened to grow faster than both its purebred cousins, but the company behind the GM creation says the ecological risk is low.
Researchers have developed a robot that observers your body movements and maps them against 120 household activities.
Michael Markieta is a transportation planner who developed this visualisation of global flight paths.
A Swedish architecture firm proposes covering a landmark Stockholm building with plastic “hairs” that would convert the wind they capture to electricity.
It’s time to bring in an expert in conflict resolution to help President Obama and Republican leaders in Congress work together for the sake of all Americans.
Ganymede and Europa have many of the conditions that could support life as we know it. We’ll find out if and when an internationally-sponsored probe — Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer, or JUICE — gets there in 2030.
Very early in my writing career I was fortunate to be able to spend three hours interviewing Linus Pauling (above), the only person in history to win two unshared Nobel […]
In the future, we will hack our genetic code as easily as we hack computer code. Bio-hackers will become more powerful than cyber-hackers: armed with computers and samples of DNA, they […]
Maybe you’ve never heard of Emmaland or Sophialand, but if you’re reading this in the United States, there’s a better than 90% chance that you live in either one of […]
A friend of mine, school psychologist, told me recently how she was asked by parents to deliver a presentation on future career opportunities in front of third graders. She called […]
I’m a little wary of defending The Great Gatsby. Not because I’m wary of the book, which I’ve loved with a passion since age sixteen, but because I can’t speak […]
What makes a meme useful and what makes it actionable is when you cluster multiple things that look similar together and you begin to analyze the patterns and you begin to quantify it.
Last week was a big one for assumptions. There was Wolf Blitzer asking an Oklahoma tornado survivor if she was thankful that the Lord spared her life. Then that brief, […]
Grit begins in the backyard between a parent and a child.
There are many people who love Bonobos precisely for the reason that they are what they are.