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“We seem to be racing toward a new configuration of government and industry without having fully thought through all of the implications,” Steve Aftergood, director of the Project on Government Secrecy at the Federation of American Scientists, told MIT Technology Review.

Any business owner wants to make sure they’re giving their customers an ideal experience. Not only are happy customers more likely to be repeat customers, but they can serve as […]

Jim Peebles, Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz just won the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics. It couldn’t be more well-deserved. Every year, the Nobel Prize reminds all of humanity to […]

Colonizing the Red Planet isn’t a bad idea in theory. But . . .

Lucy in the Sky film doesn’t deliver what it implies, but is a wacky docudrama instead.

A new immunotherapy treatment is showing positive signs in early-stage clinical trials.

From LED-equipped visors to transparent masks, these inventions aim to thwart facial recognition cameras.

Sleep deprivation leads to a shutdown in the production of essential proteins.

Many deserving potential awardees were snubbed by the Nobel committee. But this takes the cake. Every October, the Nobel foundation awards prizes celebrating the greatest advances in numerous scientific fields. Alfred […]

Scientists discover the inner workings of an effect that will lead to a new generation of devices.

We’re blissfully ignorant of how we put ourselves at risk online.

One of the scientists with the Viking missions says yes.

How do you convince people to break the habit of a lifetime?

It’s not about whether speculating theorists are right; it’s about looking where humanity has never looked before. The Large Hadron Collider, located at CERN, is the most powerful particle accelerator and […]

Discrimination against people because of their age is a real phenomenon.

A review of the global “wall” that divides rich from poor.

Results support Einstein’s theory and the idea that black holes have no “hair.”

A talented young programmer, Christopher Wylie found himself at the center of a complex plot to overturn the cultural order in the United States and Europe—one that most likely tipped the scales on Brexit and the 2016 US presidential election.

A recent headline claimed they could. But if gamma-rays are just a form of light, don’t they have to travel at light-speed? There’s an ultimate speed limit in the Universe: […]

Rest assured: Kooky ideas like the Earth being flat or vaccines causing autism are nothing new. Humanity has had worse ideas before.

Since the 1940s, NASA has been testing experimental aircraft (aka X-planes) at California’s Armstrong Flight Research Center at Edwards Air Force Base. In the past two decades, however, the agency […]

The under-recognized condition affects workers in offices across the globe.

While the blockbuster franchise might have given us a distorted view of science’s capabilities to address species extinction, new research might come close to “resurrecting” lost species’ DNA.

Move over deepfakes. Multi-agent artificial intelligence is poised to manipulate your mind.

There’s concrete tradeoff logic lurking beneath the numbers and market abstractions.

But the U.S. remains an “innovation powerhouse,” according to the annual report from the World Economic Forum.

Cognitive psychologist Steven Pinker reminds us that innuendo and euphemism yield better quid pro quo results than an “or else” ultimatum.

Why should customers buy from you instead of your competitors? That’s the question at the heart of making a sale in a competitive market, says Matt Dixon, Global Head of […]

Even though it was the crowning achievement of Einstein’s career, he was only a small part of the full story. If you were a physicist in the early 20th century, there […]

The Red Planet, the God of War, and important life lessons for us all.