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In a landmark study for the tissue engineering community, scientists have successfully grown and reconstructed new ears for children born with a birth defect.
Scientists devise neural networks that can spot likely government corruption.
If humans were made in God’s image, then whose image were aliens made in? A simple, innocent question that I received had me thinking for days about how to answer it. […]
Alas, much like parrots, they don’t know what they’re saying … it’s just that they can do it, which is still pretty remarkable.
Mapping your daily long john needs since 2011 (Canada only)
Harvard’s Steven Pinker makes the case that excessive political correctness can be damaging to society and lead to the growth of radical opinions.
The ‘big event’ was billed as a first in 150 years. But is what we’re seeing really that rare? This January 31st, something quite rare and special will happen. At 1:30 […]
Scientists discover an antibody that blocks the triggering of allergic reactions.
A new meta-analysis of over 800 studies shows that e-cigs are healthier than cigarettes. But the authors don’t give them a clean bill of health.
The New England Patriots are a magnet for conspiracy theories, spawning a new one right before the Super Bowl LII.
Complex problems undermine the very principle of meritocracy: the idea that the ‘best person’ should be hired. There is no best person.
Intelligence of the male partner affects the strength and longevity of the relationship, find researchers.
In a move that will have far-reaching consequences for legitimate and illegitimate businesses alike, Facebook has effectively banned any and all Bitcoin advertising.
Can scientists agree on a code of ethics? The World Economic Forum Young Scientists community just proposed a Code of Ethics, which was a topic of discussion at the recent World Economic Forum’s meeting in Davos, Switzerland.
Philosophers aren’t known for their love lives, but a few have managed to be tragic romantics anyway.
The three behemoth companies are teaming up to disrupt the U.S. health care industry, a move that spooked the markets on the morning of the announcement.
New privacy tools and transparency are all part of continuing changes to the largest social network in the world.
For people who really don’t want to get those wonderfully torturous root canals anymore, there’s a new breakthrough involving stem cells that could eliminate the need for them entirely.
After tobacco, carbon, and sugar, meat may be next on the list to be taxed by governments in their efforts to comply with health and environmental policies.
Every year, companies try to do things better, to find the most effective way to complete some task or to improve overall productivity. Employee learning programs play a massive part […]
It’s so much more than mass-energy equivalence; it’s the key to unlocking the quantum Universe. For hundreds of years, there was an immutable law of physics that was never challenged: […]
Experts discuss the security challenges facing the world in 2018 at a panel of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
The size of the U.S.-Mexico border wall proposed by the Trump administration seems shockingly ambitious when overlaid onto a map of Europe.
As NFL linemen keep getting bigger, are they also risking their health? Here’s how the offensive lines of the New England Patriots and Philadelphia Eagles stack up.
A rocket company launches an orbiting artwork for all the world to see, whether they want to or not.
There’s a complex biological system behind our intuition.
A significant hangup on the way to portable artificial intelligence has been the neural synapse, which has been particularly tricky to reproduce in hardware. Until now.
Why is it that people say Ayn Rand isn’t a “real” philosopher?
Ingvar Kamprad may be the most influential aesthete in the history of interior design, thanks to the mass-produced and self-assembled furniture created by his company, Ikea.