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Other forms of expression—nude dancing, flag burning, donating to political campaigns—are protected by the First Amendment. Why not computer code?
How can we use the resources that are already on the Moon to make human exploration of the satellite as economical as possible?
We know a lot about what else is out there, but we still don’t know everything. In the quest for life in the Universe, it makes sense to look at […]
They have more casual sex, too.
Elite organizations tend to get conspiracy theorists going.
The Canadian professor’s old-school message is why many started listening to him.
A blank canvas for generations of science.
Experiments show brain-to-brain collaboration.
A star orbiting past our galaxy’s supermassive black hole offered a chance to test relativity as never before. The supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way is the […]
An unbelievably clear look at what goes on inside our bodies.
It’s often said that every element was made in a star, but there’s more to it than that.
Happy birthday to Pluto, discovered on this day in 1930. Pluto, first discovered in 1930, was no more than a distant dot in our most powerful telescopes. Clyde Tombaugh’s original images […]
That’s a sharp increase from the 1960s when it took the same share of scientists an average of 35 years to drop out of academia.
A new study shows how machine-learning methods could examine your friends’ past tweets to accurately predict your future behavior online.
Please tell me that Internet trolls didn’t just get a huge leg up.
Even when they suffer costs in doing so.
Not only can’t astronomers and planetary scientists agree, but the IAU made it worse for everyone. If you were alive in 2006, you likely remember a momentous event in astronomy: […]
On Tuesday, eight science-credentialed candidates were elected to the House of Representatives.
Researchers at Princeton engineer a new type of diamond with silicon and boron that solves past issues with quantum data storage and retrieval.
Microbes screened with a new microfluidic process might be used in power generation or environmental cleanup.
Any music lover who subscribes to a streaming-music service such as Spotify, Apple Music, Pandora, or the like has entered into a bargain that represents a profound shift in the […]
Inconceivable wealth. And a few lessons in how not to get rich, too.
Climate-driven changes in phytoplankton communities will intensify the blue and green regions of the world’s oceans.
The National Institutes of Health recently began a $300-million study to examine the effects of screen time on developing brains.
More and more companies are incorporating machine-based intelligence in decision-making processes. Computers are great at numbers and finding meaningful trends in big data, so this makes sense. On the other […]
Researchers at MIT have created what may be the smallest robots yet that can sense their environment, store data, and even carry out computational tasks. These nanorobots are the size of a human cell and they could flow through intestines or pipelines to detect problems.
Scientists discovered microbes that have lived on Earth for millions of years.
The Tesla CEO said the Hardware 3 upgrade has “1000 percent more capability” than the current hardware.