It will take further study to confirm the star’s iron influx came from a planet or two, but the initial theory is quite compelling.
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Today’s children and youth are very tech savvy and easily use tablets, laptops, and smartphones to access the Internet, play games and consume media. AR can put that on fast-forward.
We know that excessive blue light is a problem. Now we know why.
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A new form of light has been discovered.
But if a radical new idea comes to fruition, maybe we can find them after all. After decades of planning, building, prototyping, upgrading, and calibrating, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) […]
Facebook disclosed to Congress last week that it gave 61 companies special access to user data in 2015, a revelation that differs from the social media company’s past claims.
This detailed infographic shows the path of Mark Zuckerberg’s life.
A new study attempts to figure out why the motor cortex sometimes synchronizes to speech as the auditory cortex does.
In the patent filed by Uber, it’s clear that the ride company’s A.I. software will use a number of data points to decide if a passenger is drunk—and how, then, to proceed.
A global Ebola pandemic could cause tens of millions of deaths. To prevent this, researchers at Lehigh University have created a predictive model based on the migratory patterns of bats.
The first image of an Event Horizon is here. Here’s what it means. Variety isn’t just the spice of life, but a natural consequence of living in our Universe. Gravitation, obeying […]
Entrepreneurs and innovative businesses are always on the lookout for new ways to leverage existing technology or create an entirely new product or service market. In this way, innovation and […]
This is what we’ve learned from first object ever discovered to enter our Solar System from interstellar space. Billions of years ago, our Solar System was an extraordinarily different place […]
Google Chrome boasts 310 million active users across the world, and it might just kill off the usage of passwords.
Disney has plans to make the Star Wars galaxy the setting for the widespread introduction of virtual reality and augmented reality to the public at large.
A child-friendly robot demonstrates human emotions and engages children with autism in responding appropriately. MIT researchers have now developed a type of personalized machine learning that helps robots estimate the engagement and interest of each child during these interactions.
Depending on how you look at it, Google wants to jump on the hot new trend in tech or is trying to appease future robot-brain overlords
It’s no secret that women are underrepresented in various sectors, from politics and banking to engineering and computing. But what about when it comes to space exploration?
The 2018 OECD Employment Outlook of 2018, released on July 4, has some alarming news for residents of some of the key countries involved—especially for the good ol’ U. S. of A.
Riddle me this: what do brain teasers tell you during a job interview? A lot, but not about the applicant.
Behavioral ecology is a real science. But applying it to humans, with our social structures, is highly suspect. Imagine a scientist. Try closing your eyes and really picturing this person: envision […]
Cyberloafing — or, absent-mindedly browsing the internet — actually has a place in the workday according to this recently published study.
The pool of things that “AI Can’t Do” appears to be steadily shrinking.
Some scientists feel that the attacks on U.S. embassy workers in Cuba and China were carried out by secret microwave weapons. Others think that’s just silly.
Sometimes, the biggest answers to the deepest questions come in the most unexpected of places. In the Solar System, anything out past Neptune is generally considered to be the outer reaches […]
Although there is much guesswork as to the future of artificial intelligence, today’s AI systems continue to be a boon for science.
Here are some of the best books on the rich history, rabid speculations and intriguing fictionalized world of artificial intelligence.
Ever recognize the repeating patterns of nature? There’s a theory for that.