When Tal Golesworthy was told he was at risk of his aorta bursting, he wasn’t impressed with the surgery on offer – so he came up with his own idea.
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If a large asteroid strikes Earth, it has the potential to release an enormous amount of energy, leading to local or even global catastrophes. The strike that led to the […]
In his new book, “The Wires of War: Technology and the Global Struggle for Power,” Jacob Helberg outlines the brewing cyberwar between Western democracies and autocracies like China and Russia.
We’re safeguarding the world’s seeds in the Arctic, why not our most precious data?
More than 70% of college students procrastinate
We can’t ask them, so scientists have devised an experiment.
You don’t need to completely automate a job to fundamentally change it.
Because of our ability to think about thinking, “the gap between ape and man is immeasurably greater than the one between amoeba and ape.”
You’ve spent almost a decade gaining extremely specialized skills. But that’s ok; your value is greater than you realize.
Why do we deprive students of the historical and cultural context of science?
The majority of Americans are stressed, sleep-deprived and overweight and suffer from largely preventable lifestyle diseases such as heart disease, cancer, stroke and diabetes. Being overweight or obese contributes to […]
New research explains why the Moon’s crust is magnetized by debunking one long-standing theory.
A theoretical physicist returns to Penrose and Hameroff’s theory of “quantum consciousness.”
Children with pre-existing mental health issues thrived during the early phase of the pandemic.
How close are we to human teleportation? Successes in quantum teleportation experiments abound.
Breakthrough technology uses multiplexing entanglement to make an ultra-secure quantum internet.
Climate change and artificial intelligence pose substantial — and possibly existential — problems for humanity to solve. Can we?
It’s a very human behavior—arguably one of the fundamentals that makes us us.
Sometimes the value of soft skills feels almost secretive—like some scrap of knowledge handed down through an ancient society of corporate recruiters. Of course, that’s not the case or that’s […]
A new interactive documentary “How Normal Am I?” helps reveal the shortcomings of facial recognition technology.
Do you sound friendly? Hostile? And which voice would be more likely to buy something?
Researchers discover black holes that violate the uniqueness theorem and have “gravitational hair.”
Scientists have long puzzled over how Mars, a cold and dry planet, was once warm enough to support liquid water.
It doesn’t help that Hollywood has cast the ‘coder’ as a socially challenged, type-first-think-later hacker, inevitably white and male.
The Rijksmuseum employed an AI to repaint lost parts of Rembrandt’s “The Night Watch.” Here’s how they did it.
Cryptocurrencies are digital currencies that use online ledgers, called blockchains, to record transactions. These blockchains are decentralized, meaning the permanent record is not stored in one location but exists on […]
Businesses have learned how to mend the weak spots in free trial marketing.
To find the optimal route between many different locations, we need the power of quantum computers.
The metaverse has the potential to be revolutionary, for both good and bad. Here is how we can maximize the former and prevent the latter.
Different methods of measuring the Universe’s expansion rate yield high-precision, incompatible answers. But is the problem robustly real?