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Pope Francis’ 2018 World Communications Day message explains the dangers of fake news and what journalists and the public must do to combat it.
A new survey indicates that large financial institutions are relaxing restrictions around mobile trading, increasing the volume of deals done via mobile apps 31% in 2017 from the year before.
Tickets are on sale to view the launch of SpaceX’s largest rocket, the Falcon Heavy, which carries with it humanity’s ambition to land astronauts on the surface of Mars.
According to science, you can control about 40% of your happiness.
There’s nothing new, recent, or remarkable about it. It’s just a typical cosmic pebble in the galactic ocean. Last year, the interstellar interloper ʻOumuamua passed through the inner Solar System. Originally […]
A new report finds China is now the leading nation in the publication of science and engineering research.
New tariffs enacted on solar panels and washing machines are coming under fire from some around the globe, while others are calling the move a positive step for jobs in the United States.
This latest breakthrough allows for a limitless production of clones.
Research from my PrejudiceLab at Goldsmiths, University of London shows that people who score high on the collective narcissism scale are particularly sensitive to even the smallest offences to their group’s image.
Researchers find that an ancient chunk of North America is now a part of Australia, shedding light on Earth’s first supercontinent Nuna.
The term “hodl” originated in a drunken post about Bitcoin from 2013, but it’s evolved into a movement in the cryptocurrency community.
Facebook announces a new unit of time called the “flick” that simplifies the creation of VR content.
Harvard’s theoretical physicist Lisa Randall links the extinction of the dinosaurs to the mysterious “dark matter”.
The neutron star-neutron star merger was initially only seen in 1 detector out of 3. Here’s how scientists didn’t let it slip away. On August 17th, 2017, a gravitational wave event […]
University of Bristol scientists find a way to levitate large objects with sound waves.
Science Debate asks 2018 candidates to discuss their views on 10 vital scientific policy issues.
Neuroscientists are now starting to put TMR to work.
In her book, The Power of Meaning, Emily Esfahani Smith details the four pillars of meaning, arguing that they’re much more important than chasing happiness.
CEO pay is based on…well, I don’t really know what. But it’s almost never based on performance, and many CEOs fail miserably while collecting a huge paycheck. Not Elon Musk.
It’s the first time the U.S. has fallen off the top 10 list since Bloomberg began its index.
Musk is about more than Teslas and rockets.
Even if it can’t detect them directly, we’ll learn the answer. Here’s how. Perhaps the most revolutionary find of the past generation, when we think about the Universe beyond Earth, is […]
Over a 100 North Korean ships have washed up on Japan’s shores since the start of 2017.
These findings will revolutionize power production, lighting, semiconductors, and informational displays.
Do we really believe everything we say? Are you always trying to establish the truth when you argue? This thought experiment will help answer these questions.
“We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can’t have both.” – Former US Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis
The U.S. government has shut down 18 times in the past four decades, but this most recent instance has proven unique.
What is the what about the squat? And have we reached some sort of squatting vogue moment?
Cosmologists behind braneworld theories see our universe as being a part of a complex inter-dimensional world.