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Consciousness expert Michael Graziano on what, if anything, makes us uniquely human.
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Cook’s commencement speech at Tulane University urges students to take action.
Every day, humanity generates 2.5 quintillion bytes of data. Every minute, users are sharing nearly 500,000 tweets, watching more than 4 million YouTube videos, and conducting more than 3.6 million […]
Construction of the $500 billion dollar tech city-state of the future is moving ahead.
A gift guide of the hottest educational toys for your budding scientist, engineer, or mathematician.
In her book The Art of Rest, one researcher conducted a thorough analysis of the top 10 activities we find most restful.
Carbonized papyrus scrolls may again see the light after thousands of years.
It’s 100 years since astronomy’s famous ‘great debate.’ We still haven’t learned the most compelling lesson of all. So, you’ve arrived at a crossroads: you think the world works in a […]
Half of Americans do not trust the federal government or social media sites to protect their data.
Move over deepfakes. Multi-agent artificial intelligence is poised to manipulate your mind.
She may not be ours forever.
The blob that’s astonishing science gets its own exhibit.
The loss of elephants accelerates climate change.
A new study contradicts some popular wisdom that says sharing your goals is always a bad idea.
Is information the fifth form of matter?
Researchers advance machine learning to create videos of people from single stills and paintings.
The neuralnanorobotics are coming.
Machine learning, which actively protects you from all sorts of dangers, including fires, explosions, collapses, crashes, workplace accidents, restaurant E. coli, and crime.
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The I Ching serves as a foundation for many Eastern philosophies and Western mathematics.
Cognitive psychologist Donald Hoffman hypothesizes we evolved to experience a collective delusion — not objective reality.
This MIT robot solves it faster than any human ever could. It’s a world record.
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Wide Angle Motion Imagery (WAMI) is a surveillance game-changer. And it’s here.
Have swipes and scrolls replaced deep thinking?
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Even if the company call pull it off, are Americans ready to trust fully autonomous cars?
Why do all of our virtual assistants have a female voice?
Most of it was eaten by Earth’s mantle, but scraped-off bits survive in the Alps and other mountain ranges.
New technology could predict cancer up to 5 years in advance.