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Harvard engineers make a breakthrough polarization camera.
Many believe that the internet has made it easier for us to participate in political activism. But is that really true?
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The biggest error from ‘A Brief History of Time’ continues to misinform generations of aspiring physicists. The greatest idea of Stephen Hawking’s scientific career truly revolutionized how we think about […]
Scientists often find that they cannot replicate prior findings.
Just how much is social media use affecting children?
The third in a three-part series on the history of research on the origin of life.
A new study found that smoking cannabis at a young age is associated with reduced brain volume in a region responsible for processing emotions on people’s faces.
For Black Hole Week, NASA released a mesmerizing animation of what a black hole probably looks like.
Future-minded companies are investing in soft skills and digital learning to empower their talent.
School diversity is less widespread in central and northern states
We’re blissfully ignorant of how we put ourselves at risk online.
MIT and Google researchers use deep learning to decipher ancient languages.
The results contradict the popular assumption that men react far more strongly to pornography.
Radio-frequency signals can be used to track peoples’ movements in their own homes.
How did psychedelics and computers converge?
The Response Act calls on schools to increase monitoring of students’ online activity.
IT has been one of the fastest growing and most lucrative industries for a long time. But is that going to be true in the future?
We trust science more than we even realize, and yet we’re quick to reject it. Why?
The system could help with diagnosing and treating patients that cannot communicate.
The move comes one day before more than 1,500 Amazon employees are set to walk off the job as part of the global climate strikes.
An Oxford scientist’s controversial theory rethinks dark matter and dark energy.
If its claims are true, Clearview AI has quietly blown right past privacy norms to become the nightmare many have been fearing.
Nearly anything political is now branded with a catchy hashtag.
Recent years have seen countries across the African continent investing deep into the tech industry. Rwanda is angling to get ahead of the pack.
The most popular books of the past 125 years, and where to get them.
How can we save humanity from ourselves? In this life and this Universe, there will always be questions beyond the capabilities of humanity to answer. There’s so much that we’ve […]
The history of Silicon Valley: The rise of a technological unicorn.
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A glimpse into what a sustainable, inclusive future will look like.