A new study highlights a fascinating application of AI, though other uses are more troubling.
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Discover the peril and potential of an automated robotic world.
Two new studies might have identified whether or not patients will respond to chemotherapy.
Our planet is rare, precious, and fragile. It’s up to all of us to be its steward. With the advent of rocketry and spaceflight, our cosmic perspective changed forever. The very […]
Even if the company call pull it off, are Americans ready to trust fully autonomous cars?
Some basic areas we could all use some improvement in.
The recent debate between Slavoj Zizek and Jordan Peterson lived up to the hype.
Secret Spice Girls dance parties of the wives of anti-western morality police. Book deals for political prisoners still in jail. Iran is a land of contradictions where oppression and freedom uneasily coexist. Born in France, Delphine Minoui lived in Tehran for 10 years to understand her grandparents’ country from the inside.
If a star spins and then collapses, what happens to its angular momentum? The most common way to form a black hole in the Universe is to have a massive […]
The lack of tall, strong oak trees poses something of a problem for the restoration effort.
In India, a construction boom is fueling a criminal enterprise around one of the most ubiquitous substances on Earth: sand.
There was a first molecule, and we found one just like it. But there’s a big difference. The Universe’s first molecule is found at last! That’s what the headlines have […]
If you’re lacking confidence and feel like you could benefit from an ego boost, try writing your life story.
A space memorial company plans to launch the ashes of “Pikachu,” a well-loved Tabby, into space.
What do the inventions of the future look like?
Angie McArthur, CEO of Professional Thinking Partners and the co-author of Collaborative Intelligence, talks about keeping a relationship “clean.” She’s talking about dealing with misunderstandings before they have a chance […]
Red, green, and blue? What we call ‘color charge’ is far more interesting than that. At a fundamental level, reality is determined by only two properties of our Universe: the quanta […]
The team caught a glimpse of a process that takes 18,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 years.
Two new reports highlight the stark realities of the modern workforce.
Psychopaths are manipulative, violent, impulsive, and lack empathy — but if psychopathy encourages more frequent reproduction, is it, then, an advantageous strategy?
Negotiating is often a white-knuckle affair, but the stakes are rarely higher than when the FBI is trying to come to terms with a kidnapper. Chris Voss, now CEO of […]
A single thought experiment reveals a paradox. Could quantum gravity be the solution? Sometimes, if you want to understand how nature truly works, you need to break things down to […]
Is consciousness just a showdown between your beliefs and perceptions?
One of the world’s deadliest diseases, malaria takes the life of a child every two minutes.
It marks a major shift in the government’s battle against the opioid crisis.
The neuralnanorobotics are coming.
The real Game of Thrones might be who best leverages the hit HBO show to shape political narratives.
For a startup, growth is a straightforward matter of scaling up: adding employees, setting up distribution channels, and so on. But, says David Butler in his Big Think+ video “Design […]