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A future kitchen appliance could make it possible to 3D-print entirely new recipes and cook them with lasers.

Misinterpreted data may be distorting Western predictions about the future of China’s economy.

The NFL icon talks overcoming a difficult childhood and what’s needed to succeed in a world where the cards are stacked against you.

TikTok and its allies won’t go down without a legal fight.

People living in non-industrialized societies don’t get pimples.

A dog’s breed isn’t as predictive of behavior as many think it is. Environment and upbringing play a much larger role.

It could cut the time needed to reach Mars in half.

If our goal is to effect the greatest possible progress, what would it look like to approach this holistically? What might need to dispositionaly in how we approach solving our most important problems—at an individual level, a community level, or at a civilizational or global one? We asked our experts to think big picture about how what new thinking would be required to create a larger pro-progress framework.

It might seem petty and shallow to get upset over a bad gift, but there’s often a deeper reason behind the feeling.

Can two planets stably share the same orbit? Conventional wisdom says no, but a look at Saturn’s moons might tell a different story.

The tech world’s fixation on artificial intelligence has spawned beliefs and rituals that resemble religion — complete with digital deities, moral codes, and threats of damnation.

Here’s how learning leaders can best take advantage of the technology that employees carry with them everywhere.

Gravitational waves are the last signatures that are emitted by merging black holes. What happens when these two phenomena meet in space?

It turns out it’s hard to make work at an Amazon warehouse fun.

Mozart’s Sonata for Two Pianos in D Major (K448) can help reduce seizures in epilepsy patients.

The game of Plinko perfectly illustrates chaos theory. Even with indistinguishable initial conditions, the outcome is always uncertain.

Our Universe requires dark matter in order to make sense of things, astrophysically. Could massive photons do the trick?

Scientists can make substantial progress without fully understanding exactly what they’re doing.

Why do some corporate training programs fail? Here are five reasons. 

What would it take to create a truly intelligent microbot, one that can operate independently?

Lots of people have seen lots of bizarre events and phenomena that defy our conventional experience. But is there a scientific explanation?

An extraordinary haberdasher obsessed with buttons, lace collars, and death pioneered modern statistical analysis during the Age of Reason.

BMW found it’s possible to remote-drive vehicles using available technology. All it takes is some software updates and a cellular network connection.

You’re a moody person. You have to be — because understanding moods philosophically can be crucial to your work-life.

Just because you can’t experience it doesn’t mean it’s not real.

For years and over three separate experiments, “lepton universality” appeared to violate the Standard Model. LHCb at last proved otherwise.

Our concept of “failure” is way too narrow.

Researchers have been developing a promising model that can more closely mimic the human body – organ-on-a-chip.

There were many similarities, but also some profound differences.

The midwest is particularly filled with them.