Thanks to a mandate passed by Congress in 1996, the US government is about to get out of the business of producing helium. The resulting shortage could affect a range of sectors across the industrialized world.
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Many on Twitter say Manning deserved worse. Others are suggesting that President Obama should pardon Manning at the end of his term.
It’s possible that over time that we can develop the equivalent of almost a one-click shopping across the internet.
Medical professionals are demonstrating how Google Glass could be used for tasks ranging from viewing CAT scans during surgery to recording an actual procedure for educational purposes.
It’s the collaboration between the DNA from all your ancestors that keeps you alive.
On macro and micro levels, longer life is not working out. Almost all nations are aging and will confront the disruptive demographics of an aging society, some sooner than later. […]
While the fest provides a forum for respected marijuana advocates to voice their position on drug policy reform, others view Hempfest as an all-out weed wonderland.
Visitors to the £90 million (US$141 million) building, located in London’s Brent borough, can select questions from a touchscreen and “Shanice” will answer them from her “seat” on a screen behind the reception desk.
You can tell stories and then you can die, ultimately, and your stories can continue to have an effect on other people.
There is nothing more mind-numbing than reading in someone’s bio or profile a list of things they are “passionate” about, in a sentence that goes: “I am passionate about x, […]
Now that Facebook and other sites are incorporating more photo features, writer Molly McHugh takes note of how images are starting to replace — rather than complement — text as a means of communication.
Traditionally, cultural waves around food would take a much longer time to spread, generate hype and spawn imitators and fade out- but not at the breakneck pace that we are witnessing in 2013.
Amazon.com may have been down in North America for as long as 45 minutes this week.
Your greatest danger is that you’re going to be replaceable by the time you’re in your late 30s.
We hear the admonishments all the time; smoking ___ cigarettes a day will take ___ years off your life, drinking ___ glasses of alcohol a day will take […]
A new song captures the feelings of the anti-surveillance movement.
A new agreement targeting Dutch content publishers involves linking an e-book’s digital watermark to the purchaser’s account. That way, if a copy of the e-book ends up on a pirating site, the publishers will know who to come after.
The country became the first in the world to officially recognize the use of the virtual currency for legal and tax purposes.
Meet e-David (Drawing Apparatus for Vivid Image Display), a robot who is programmed to copy works of art.
41 images were stitched together to create this sped-up movie that shows Phobos, the larger of the two Martian moons, passing Deimos, the smaller one.
This is to counterpose the picture which is developed in physics from Galileo and Newton and Descartes down to the present quantum cosmologists.
Thinking that leadership as binary is a very big mistake.
Let’s suppose you are running the perfect state, the perfect government. You would want to go on a little world tour before you got down to business to see the […]
With the world economy fighting its way off the ropes, is China capable of supporting global commerce by developing an economic juggernaut like Apple or Ikea?
On Tuesday evening, the television news network Al Jazeera America will enter the homes of nearly half of this country’s 100 million cable subscribers.
Doomsday predictions about a world with too many mouths to feed, once predicted to reach 11 billion by 2050, are being drastically reevaluated.
The Finnish system spends about one-quarter less money per pupil than the American system, yet student achievement remains high.
While this summer has yielded mostly positive economic news, the engines of recovery in Europe, Japan, and China, may inevitably lose steam.
Twenty years ago, I predicted that when the exponential and predictable progress of processing power, storage, and bandwidth—what I called the three digital accelerators—reached the levels we would have by […]