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With teamwork and clearly-stated goals, big transformations can take place — swiftly.

The successor to Hubble is almost ready for launch. It’s really coming this year, too! NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, originally proposed in the 1990s, is finally slated to launch later […]

A company claims to make the world’s first humanoid android and offers ‘digital immortality”.

Here’s a look at the space agency’s astronaut candidate requirements.

Binary pulsars are doing what no other measurement has done: measure our galactic acceleration directly. Even though the majority of the matter that makes up our Universe may be completely […]

The old idea of running with springs on your feet gets a high-tech makeover.

Musk also said that “anonymous bot swarms” should be investigated.

Scientists used CT scanning and 3D-printing technology to re-create the voice of Nesyamun, an ancient Egyptian priest.

Avi Loeb says it’s aliens. Every other astronomer disagrees. Here’s why. In 2017, an astronomical event occurred that was unlike any other: for the first time, we observed an object that […]

“A monkey has been able to control a computer with its brain,” Musk said, referring to tests of the device.

How do you write away the personal hole in your heart when that hole was left by a man half the world idolizes? Steve Jobs’ daughter, the writer Lisa Brennan-Jobs, on the process and effects of writing her beautiful memoir SMALL FRY.

In his book with Richard Clarke, “Warnings,” Eddy made clear this was inevitable.

“It is almost impossible to put into words the difference that Alan Turing made to society.”

So much of the world you know was made possible by Intel founder Robert Noyce, co-inventor of the integrated circuit.

Study finds that a colony’s exposure to pesticides impairs offspring.

Superpowerful lasers for next-generation technologies are closer to existence.

A talented young programmer, Christopher Wylie found himself at the center of a complex plot to overturn the cultural order in the United States and Europe—one that most likely tipped the scales on Brexit and the 2016 US presidential election.

Is your red the same as mine? Probably not.

How do you know you are real? A classic paper by philosopher Nick Bostrom argues you are likely a simulation.

We have been rejecting science for far too long. We all need to embrace it. For as long as human civilization has existed, those societies that have embraced science have had […]

New computing theory allows artificial intelligences to store memories.

Artificial intelligence has proven equal and even better than humans in making some diagnoses.

Soon we’ll be able to blink and instantly go online via computer chips attached to our eyes.

Brain uploads and what matters for future human flourishing.

In 2018, The New York Times published a comprehensive expose on the burgeoning crypto movement that detailed the luxurious lives of the newly crypto rich. The article, aptly titled, “Everyone […]

For now, artificial intelligence is nothing to fear. But as it rapidly develops in the years ahead?

If we’re migrating slowly away, is our speed changing, too? Every year, planet Earth completes one revolution around the Sun while spinning on its axis. On a year-to-year basis, our […]

When it comes to cryptocurrency, Bitcoin has long been the king of the hill thanks to its status as the founder of the young industry and its first-mover appeal. A […]

Experts are saying it’s a “huge step forward for synthetic biology.”

Through experiencing time in a nonlinear way, can artificial intelligence provide us more perspective?