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A semi-scientific test of touchscreen kiosks in eight McDonald’s restaurants in the U.K. have caused alarm that microbiologists say is unwarranted.
The $480 million contract could lead the company to make more than 100,000 augmented reality headsets for the military.
It has experts baffled.
The Great White North has found a way to provide universal healthcare with more salubrious results and trimmed national costs. Take notes, America.
The particles are able to travel deep into tissue in ways that other treatments simply can’t.
One of the most famous experiments in psychology might be completely wrong.
There is no universal diet or exercise program.
Researchers find out why some people believe utter BS.
Neuroscientist Robert Sapolsky admits that when you’re on the bottom of a hierarchy, “it sucks whether you are a baboon or a human.” Sapolsky suggests that as a business leader, […]
The Mars landing is a reminder that we never know what—or whom—we might discover out there.
At ground zero, Trinitite, the green, glassy substance found in the area, is still radioactive and must not be picked up. The Trinity Site was where the first atomic bomb […]
All of eXp Realty’s 1,500 employees work remotely on a virtual island complete with meeting rooms, a soccer field and speedboats.
The renowned author plans to publish a follow-up to the 1985 bestseller in September 2019.
Turn on, tune in, and drop out and into a good psychedelic book.
Verily, a branch of Google’s parent company, recently finished its second study of a counterintuitive technique that kills mosquitoes without using traditional insect sprays.
Silent, carbon-free propulsion with no moving parts.
Research shows that employers are working to find more talent in the blockchain space, and they’re willing to pay higher rates for it.
Venus: Hot, toxic, hellish… home?
The line between science and pseudoscience is imperceptible to most. Here’s how you can catch it in yourself. When it comes to science, the first principle is that you must […]
Big Think expert Dr. Jennifer Doudna, a professor at UC Berkeley and co-inventor of CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing technology, issued a statement responding to a scientist’s recent claim that he helped create the world’s first genetically edited babies.
The companies launching satellites aboard the SpaceX rocket hope to revolutionize the Internet of Things.
Project Dragonfly aims to help the Chinese government build a censored search engine that would “blacklist” information that officials don’t like.
Time to build a Corellian shipyard?
Mercantilism, the oldest thing in economics, is back in a big way.
The ancients had a cornucopia of holidays and festivities.
Eric Weinstein, Managing Director of Thiel Capital, doesn’t see the journey from excellent to extraordinary as being a continuum, exactly. You don’t get better and better and better and then […]
When it comes to flirting, love meters have nothing on these researchers’ findings.
New research suggests brains anticipate future events through a process called anticipatory timing.