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The researchers created a special polymer that can make robots repair themselves.
You get out what you put in, and we haven’t truly invested in space since Apollo ended. Humanity should be an interplanetary civilization by now. There is no scientific reason that […]
Immigrants add way more to the American economy than they take.
Psychedelics are crude drugs. Could neuroscience and super-intelligent AI help us design something better?
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We found 10 video games that kids will love (and they’ll secretly be learning, too).
Is consciousness just a showdown between your beliefs and perceptions?
It may be growing in popularity, but is there anything substantive to this new wellness trend?
Sunken nuclear submarines and covert operations against the Soviet Union eventually led to Titanic’s discovery.
IT has been one of the fastest growing and most lucrative industries for a long time. But is that going to be true in the future?
Scientists at NASA are currently developing methane-creating robots to overcome this challenge.
NASA JPL takes a first step toward a GPS for space.
We all have obstacles to overcome in pursuit of our goals. For Santa Claus, it’s clear that science is the key. Of all the challenges we face in our work, perhaps […]
Some say the proliferation of sex robots could lead to less demand for prostitution, but not all agree.
Even if the company call pull it off, are Americans ready to trust fully autonomous cars?
Killer robots. Alien invasions. Climate change. Josh Clark of Stuff You Should Know and the new podcast The End of the World thinks a lot these days about existential threats. Believe it or not, he’s optimistic.
Might microdosing LSD and psilocybin be a safe, effective way to treat depression and other disorders?
What will it take to conquer our immemorial space dream?
The future of food sounds bleak, but it doesn’t need to be this way.
The Dr. Data Show is a new web series that breaks the mold for data science infotainment, captivating the planet with short webisodes that cover the very best of machine learning and predictive analytics.
The photos were taken the same day as Russian cosmonauts investigated a mysterious hole discovered in one of the craft.
This story was originally published in Aeon and has been republished under Creative Commons.
If we ruin the night sky too severely, ground-based astronomy could suffer tremendously. Here’s why space is no replacement. There is an existential threat to astronomy as we know it, […]
The Soviet Union’s space program was years ahead of the USA’s. So how did they lose the space race? Here in the United States and all across the world, humanity is […]
The billionaire entrepreneur predicts the rise of technology will soon force society to rethink the modern work week.
Some of them were surprisingly astute.
The most valuable college majors will prepare students for a world right out a science fiction novel.
