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Hilarious examples that prove how correlation does not equal causality.

The Antipode may one day revolutionize your commute. It would be 10 times faster than the Concorde and take you across the ocean before you could finish an episode of The Simpsons. 

Loop quantum gravity gets the ancient atomist back into the loop, showing how black holes might explode, and that the Big Bang might be a Big Bounce.   

They may look odd, but it’s all part of Google’s plan to solve a huge issue in machine learning: recognizing objects in images.

You wouldn’t know it, but plants are constantly taking in information.  

The study of science, without planned application, can lead to fascinating things in its own right. 

Universal Basic Income (UBI) and the movement towards a shorter work week is not just a solution to inequality, but one also aimed at stabilizing the environment.

Did they perform their analysis sub-optimally? Maybe. But gravitational waves were seen no matter what. “We hope that interested people will repeat our calculations and will make up their own minds […]

Amoebas one-tenth the width of a human hair may someday help diffuse a bioterror attack.   

The popular concept of introversion often differs from how psychologists define the term, but a new model seeks to clarify exactly what being an introvert means.

Compelling evidence makes the case for both the Steppe and Anatolian Hypotheses.   

Last week, Cassini plunged into Saturn’s atmosphere. Here are the top 6 things we learned from it while it was alive. “Being a scientist and staring immensity and eternity in the […]

The strange origin of autocorrect during the development of an American secret Chinese computer.

What if we told you that, right now, your phone was making a map of your interior surroundings — whether you’re at work or at home — and sending that data to places unknown?

Are virtual assistants teaching children to be nasty?

Meet the Cornell scientist who figured out the link between fracking disposal wells and Oklahoma’s earthquakes.

Pay your bills, slip through security, and take a train, all without fumbling through your wallet.   

The human mind is like a Turing machine, says Daniel Dennett. It’s made up of unthinking cogs – but when combined in the right order, their motion gives rise to consciousness.

The average amount of eye contact adults make is 30-60% per conversation, 60-70% if they feel invested.   

Philosopher and cognitive scientist David Chalmers warns about an AI-dominated future world without consciousness at a recent conference on artificial intelligence that also included Elon Musk, Ray Kurzweil, Sam Harris, Demis Hassabis and others.

The most impactful technology inventions in history are ranked.

Could there be a massive, giant planet beyond Neptune? Here’s what the science says… for now. “Finding out that something you have just discovered is considered all but impossible is one […]

And if it were, is there any way we could detect that this were the case? “Do I believe, for example, that by using magic I could fly? No. How would […]

Physicists finds evidence from just after the Big Bang that supports the controversial holographic universe theory.

Mathematics is the academic class that is most socially acceptable to regard as your weak point. This is a shame.

“No government is prepared,” The Economist reports.   

A new study suggests always-improving video games are keeping young men without college educations unemployed or out of the workforce entirely.

The secret lies in neuroplasticity.   

Robots and AI are going to become an everyday part of life, but will that take away other everyday parts of life?

Driverless cars are nothing short of a revolution – not a technological revolution, but a social one, that will determine how fast we can accept, adapt and trust these new systems to change our lives.       Driverless cars may be borne out of science fiction, but they are fast becoming realities on tomorrow’s roadways. The transition from driver to robot is nothing short of a revolution. Not a technological revolution, but a social one, that will determine how fast we can accept, adapt and trust these new systems to change how and where we live, work, play and interact with each other.