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Artificial intelligence already exhibits many human characteristics. Given our history of denying rights to certain humans, we should recognize that robots are people and have human rights.

Everybody wants to be happy, right? Who wouldn’t try to get as many pleasurable experiences as they could? Well, if this philosopher is right. You wouldn’t. 

Apparently, Einstein shared a similar outlook on time as what’s proposed here.  

If you have dreams of space, here’s your guide… to more than just school! “I’m coming back in… and it’s the saddest moment of my life.” –Ed White, at the end […]

Google’s DeepMind creates AI that blows away existing speech synthesizers. 

KGB-era “active measures” are still being used by Russian intelligence agencies today, according to experts.

If it weren’t just the three space and one time dimensions, what would be different? “There is a fifth dimension, beyond that which is known to man. It is a […]

Have you heard that life is unlikely around low-mass, red dwarf stars? It might be time to rethink that flawed conclusion. “Laws of nature mixed with evolutionary/historical contingencies allow for […]

Two billionaires are apparently funding research into how we can escape the simulation they believe we’re trapped in.

Steven Pinker believes there’s some interesting gender psychology at play when it comes to the robopocalypse. Could artificial intelligence become evil or are alpha male scientists just projecting?

It’s worse — and better — than you think. 

Every year, companies try to do things better, to find the most effective way to complete some task or to improve overall productivity. Employee learning programs play a massive part […]

No pep talks here, just a prediction by innovation expert Alec Ross that gene code and precision medicine is set revolutionize life the same way that computer code has.

Researchers in materials science — physics, chemistry, and engineering — are working on new technologies which could solve some of the biggest problems humans currently face.

Physicists create a structure that breaks the symmetry of time.

Brain blood flow in those with cannabis use disorder was found to be significantly restricted.   

A new study finds that non-human primates have the vocal tract required for human-type speech.

Pedal faster, we need the juice! The tech giant is about to become the world’s greenest company. Here’s how. 

Meteorologist Cliff Mass explains why and how U.S. weather forecasting is falling behind.

Turns out simplicity is really, really complicated. Having worked with Steve Jobs for years as an advertising creative director on Apple products, Ken Segall has taken a blood oath to uphold the principles of simplicity.

Looking at how our technology and culture compare to Star Trek’s vision of the future.

Computer-brain interface technology is progressing faster than medical research can reliably understand how it affects human health over the longterm. Still, the technology is really cool.

It’s a web, it’s a cloud – it’s under attack: how outages reveal the actual shape of the internet

An upcoming, massive “atlas of the underworld” will allow geologists to rewind geologic time.

Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs is incomplete as we commonly know it. Later in his life, Maslow wrote about a stage beyond self-actualization. Nichol Bradford explains how to arrive at this final place.

Japanese doctors reveal how AI software helped save the life of a cancer patient.

Researchers found what all viruses have in common and created a therapy that should work on any kind, and will outsmart viral mutation.

A new videogame has bad guys that evolve in response to the way you play.

A Japanese study found that they could even tell what subjects were dreaming about. 

Our special place on the planet becomes harder to stomach the more we destroy it.