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To put things in perspective, the cost of sequencing a single genome in 2012 was around $10,000.
There’s no telling whether machine-learned common sense is five years away, or 50.
Gods and angels have been replaced with hi-tech extraterrestrials.
The spooky world of quantum mechanics might reach out and touch you — by mutating your DNA. Welcome to the weird world of quantum biology.
Grandmasters and drug dealers have one thing in common: They are many steps ahead of their rivals.
The new agency wants to push the boundaries of science and technology.
We have very specific predictions for how particles ought to decay. When we look at B-mesons all together, something vital doesn’t add up.
Business leaders know they must prepare for technological upheavals in the years ahead. But keeping up-to-date on new technologies—to say nothing of understanding their complexities and forecasting those shifts—is an […]
Nagomi helps us find balance in discord by unifying the elements of life while staying true to ourselves.
NASA was dangerously cavalier about the dangers of the shuttle launches.
A scientist’s first-hand account shows the world can tackle a global environmental crisis.
The four-color theorem was one of the past century’s most popular and enduring mathematical mysteries.
Ev Fedorenko’s Interesting Brains Project highlights the human brain’s remarkable capacity to adapt, reorganize in the face of early damage.
Adams was infamously scooped when Neptune was discovered in 1846. His failure wasn’t the end, but a prelude to a world-changing discovery.
Quantum communication offers a surer path to sending an interstellar message, as well as receiving one. But can we do it?
Because there’s not enough Walden pond to go around.
Digital currencies are set to upend paper currencies, but it likely won’t be the decentralized utopia some hope it will be.
A conversation with an advanced alien species is likely to be simple and to take 1,000 years. It might also be dangerous.
How our brains interpret computer code could impact how we teach it.
Although we still don’t know the question, we know that the answer to life, the Universe, and everything is 42. Here are 5 possibilities.
An elaborate device called the Mechanical Turk defeated Benjamin Franklin and Napoleon Bonaparte at chess. Edgar Allan Poe revealed the hoax.
Thinking about the problem of meaning is unsettling because it introduces us to a list of solutions that all feel a bit insane.
What if intelligence can thrive without consciousness?
A decade ago, scientists weren’t able to confidently connect any individual weather event to climate change, even though the warming trends were clear.
What are they and, more importantly, how do you get rid of them?
