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“To promote the development of a commercial asteroid resources industry for outer space in the United States and to increase the exploration and utilization of asteroid resources in outer space.”
A Defense Department project has developed some of the first tools able to detect when videos have been digitally manipulated—content often called deepfake videos.
Biodiversity refers to genetic diversity within species, diversity between species, and diversity of ecosystems. We take a look at all three.
We are living In a time when personal information is readily available online. Although people provide résumés when applying for jobs, employers increasingly turn to social media networks like Facebook, […]
The hallmark of a good scientist is changing your mind when new evidence arises. Here’s what that looks like. Science, like many things in life, is always a work-in-progress. While a […]
Starbucks isn’t accepting bitcoin—yet.
Why is manipulating people morally wrong but influencing them is not? Here’s the fundamental distinction between manipulation and non-manipulative influence.
This would be the end of one of the longest economic booms since the 1990 Dot Com bubble.
About 3 million tweets from Russian trolls have been published in an effort to illuminate how foreign agents have been disrupting political discourse in the U.S.
We all know who Confucius was, but what did he teach?
On Monday morning, YouTube removed Infowars and The Alex Jones Channel from its platform, following similar bans from Apple, Spotify and Facebook.
The Perseid meteor shower during this weekend’s new moon should be fabulous.
A new poll highlights the dramatic influence of partisan thinking in the U.S. with regards to key principles of international law.
Mars will never look as big as the full Moon. But it isn’t even the biggest planet. From humanity’s perspective, the Sun and Moon always dominate Earth’s skies. The Moon and […]
Colorado and Oregon are leading the charge.
New research in PTSD might make an MDMA script reality by 2021.
Is it a super-secret place for the global el33t? Or is it just a bunch of n00bs masquerading as true h4x0rs?
Your brain organizes your memories in your sleep thanks to some incredible neuroscience.
Researchers at MIT have created what may be the smallest robots yet that can sense their environment, store data, and even carry out computational tasks. These nanorobots are the size of a human cell and they could flow through intestines or pipelines to detect problems.
The stunning Super-Kamiokande is hidden beneath a mountain in Japan to detect neutrinos shot from supernovas.
It’s not demons. It’s not the undead. The explanation is actually way more boring that you’ll ever guess.
Think the future isn’t already here with us? Think again!
The probe, no larger than a car, will be the closest a man-made object has ever gotten to the sun. We will be able to study and see it like we’ve never seen it before.
More than 20,000 people have signed a petition for Batman, one of Turkey’s 81 provinces, to be re-shaped so its borders resemble the Bat-Signal.
Perhaps energy isn’t conserved at all in an expanding Universe. If you have a Universe full of stuff — whether that’s atoms, dark matter, radiation, neutrinos, or anything else — it’s virtually impossible to […]
What are the health and environmental effects of electric night light?
When you’re a Hasidic woman in Borough Park, Brooklyn, starting an ambulance corps is a radical act. Documentary filmmaker Paula Eiselt on the push-pull of identity and cultural change in her film 93Queen.
A new report from the American Meteorological Society shows that Earth’s atmosphere had the highest levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere in 2017 than it’s had in the past 800,000 years.
A new study shows that psychopaths have a hard time telling when someone’s genuinely distressed, and that they don’t seem to care much either way.