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From computer hacking to biohacking, Dave Asprey has embarked on a quest to reverse the aging process.

Scientists exploring human neurons directly learn some remarkable things.

Can technology act as a feedback loop for human emotions?

The latest phones have more than one million (1,048,576 to be exact) times more memory than the Apollo computer had in RAM.

Primordial Earth exists in a small chamber in New Jersey.

Catch Saturn at its biggest and brightest, and view its rings while you still can. Right now, in Earth’s skies, Saturn appears at its biggest and brightest. A view of tonight’s […]

“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.

The distracting nature of modern media is having a terrible effect on what we learn.

We found 10 video games that kids will love (and they’ll secretly be learning, too).

Only 3% of physics graduates and 2% of astronomy graduates are Black. That’s got to change. In the late 1990s, about 5% of the approximately 4000 bachelor’s degrees in physics per […]

Will nefarious players use social media to sway public opinion again this November?

What’s the big promise of blockchain in business? Its ability to eliminate the middle man.

An international study finds the vast majority of 15-year-olds can’t tell when they’re being manipulated.

Silicon Valley started as a Republican stronghold. How did it turn so liberal?

To stay on top in the business world, you have to make sure your business model matches the times.

A pragmatic approach to fixing an imbalanced system.

Historian Maragaret O’Mara explains why a tech utopia was, and still might be, a pipe dream.

If you want to get the Universe we see, a multiverse comes along for the ride. When we look out at the Universe today, it simultaneously tells us two stories about […]

Thou shalt not conclude “aliens” from insufficient data. When it comes to what’s out there in this Universe, perhaps the only thing that’s greater than our cosmic ignorance is the […]

This is what you need to do to keep up with today’s digital progress.

We encode our biases into everything we create: books, poems, and AI. What does that means for an increasingly automated future?

And can we devise an experiment to tell, even when we aren’t looking? One of the most bizarre aspects of quantum physics is that the fundamental entities that make up the […]

If you surreptitiously pick your nose, chances are that everyone can see you doing it.

Noise causes stress. For our ancestors, it meant danger: thunder, animal roars, war cries, triggering a ‘fight or run’ reaction.

The view from beyond Pluto is far enough from Earth that we can see the stars shift. NASA’s New Horizons, humanity’s first spacecraft to encounter Pluto, is more than 4.3 billion […]

Everyone wants to predict who will win the 2020 presidential election. Here are 2 misconceptions to bust so people don’t proclaim the death of data like they did in 2016.

Should humans fear artificial intelligence or welcome it into our lives?

Creators of the popular protein-folding game, Foldit, are seeking help to design a treatment for COVID-19.

Research from Denmark finds that mindfulness and music help sustain attention.

With teamwork and clearly-stated goals, big transformations can take place — swiftly.