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They plan to record personality, memory, and body function information, and recreate it.   

The event brought scholars and comedians together to take a look at what’s funny and why.   

Groundbreaking research finds that the human brain creates multi-dimensional neural structures.

A pioneering study provides a detailed look at how the U.S. economy will suffer from climate change.

For our future’s sake, let’s demand government funding for ‘little science’, says Hertz fellow Avideh Zakhor.

A recent conference on the future of artificial intelligence features visionary debate between Elon Musk, Ray Kurzweil, Sam Harris, Nick Bostrom, David Chalmers, Jaan Tallinn and others.

It’s currently billions of tonnes of fossil fuels every year. With new (or existing!) technologies, we could literally change the world. “In terms of weapons, the best disarmament tool so far […]

The results of this study help us better understand how stars are born and how they develop.  

1.5 million children die each year from preventable diseases arising from poor sanitation systems. That’s why some of the world’s top scientists are working to make a 21st-century toilet without links to water, energy, or sewer lines, and which costs users under $0.05 a day.

Musical savants have “enhanced pitch discrimination” and “increased auditory perceptual capacity.” But why?

The research isn’t all negative.

Among other things, researchers found that there are two subgroups of the Alt-Right, but that the more economically motivated members may buy into White Supremacy over time.

Scientists successfully test an ingenious system for growing premature fetuses.

“What do you want to be when you grow up?” is one of those cliché questions that adults ask automatically. It turns out that the answer may reveal a lot about an adolescent’s health.  

UPS avoids left-hand turns because SCIENCE, also increased risk of accidents and delays.

Despite decades of research, there is no reliable vaccine for malaria. Dr. Philip Eckhoff lays out the strategies and collaborations required to eradicate this disease and the half a million lives it takes each year.

Exterior mapping – like GPS maps – is part of daily life, but in the coming decades prepare to have your private, interior spaces mapped to assist with future technologies.

Something’s got to be wrong. But is it what we think about the star, the Universe, or something else? “The older you get, the more you realize that the way […]

Amidst the recent discovery of super-Earth LHS 1140b – one of the “most exciting” exoplanets discovered in the last decade – a unique scientific crowdsourcing project is about to begin to further advance the search for new planets.

It’s tempting to add the spins of the quarks together, but that’s not what the experiments agree with! “We must regard it rather as an accident that the Earth (and presumably […]

‘Deep learning’ AI should be able to explain its automated decision-making—but it can’t. And even its creators are lost on where to begin.

Maintaining a hopeful, optimistic attitude positively affects a person’s health, academic performance, and relationships. But what makes someone hopeful or optimistic?

How can we solve a problem like Malaria? One doctor has an idea: send in the mathematicians. 

Elon Musk, Sam Harris, Ray Kurzweil and other visionaries discuss AI superintelligence at a recent conference.

There are four main traits of temperament and two subsets of each. Which are you?   

Guy Garcia tackles the future of technology in his new novel, Swarm.

Never heard of SKA, the square kilometer array? Once it starts taking data, you’ll never forget it. “Not all chemicals are bad. Without chemicals such as hydrogen and oxygen, for […]

Are we living in a simulation? Theoretical physicist Brian Greene and Neil deGrasse Tyson walk us through the ideas, which might support this fantastic and unnerving concept. 

Scientists are starting to run for office to bring evidence-based reasoning back to government.

Polymaths are people who have excelled in diverse pursuits, and several of those polymaths left us with some very practical advice on how to succeed.