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A child-friendly robot demonstrates human emotions and engages children with autism in responding appropriately. MIT researchers have now developed a type of personalized machine learning that helps robots estimate the engagement and interest of each child during these interactions.

Representation matters. Meet five stellar women in physics who were unjustly denied their place in history. Nobel season is now over, with another year in the books of celebrating the scientists […]

New research predicts the existence of completely different kind of stars.

Just one equation relates the expansion of space to all the matter and energy we have. If you know this, you can know the fate of the Universe. Last week, […]

As human beings we all must do some work for basic survival—but how much? Is there a “minimum daily requirement” of work?

His book warns us of the dangers of mass media, passivity, and how even an intelligent population can be driven to gladly choose dictatorship over freedom.

If everything was hot, dense, and super close-together at the Big Bang, what kept us from collapsing into a singularity? The Big Bang is one of the most counterintuitive ideas […]

Out of five vital questions, which one should we most desire the answer to? Despite all we’ve learned about physics, science, and the Universe before us, there are still some incredibly […]

Dark matter is our leading theory for a reason. New, detailed studies of the smallest galaxies could kill off the most studied alternative. When you look out at the Universe, […]

We’re directly responsible for our robots’ joy, suffering, thoughtfulness, and creative potential.

Professional learning programs are important to any business or organization because they help to enhance your existing workforce by instilling new knowledge and skills. When it comes to creating learning […]

Imagined memory palaces are still used by memory champions and the few who practice the memory arts, but they are best known from Greco-Roman times.

Digging deeper into last week’s revelations about the Red Planet.

We see matter, but not antimatter, in our Universe. Could black holes be the answer? One of the greatest cosmic puzzles in our entire Universe is why there’s so much more […]

Images taken 20 years apart show the rate of evaporation, and they’ll take much more than mere thousands of years to destroy. In 1995, the Hubble Space Telescope snapped one of […]

If everything goes right, astronomy will take a magnificent leap into the future. But here’s what needs to happen first. Back in 2000, NASA held their decadal survey, choosing what would […]

The pool of things that “AI Can’t Do” appears to be steadily shrinking.

Everything you wanted to know about black holes, supernova, and quasars but were afraid to ask.

A new survey and study compares beliefs about creation with a person’s scientific understanding and finds that the more one knows, the greater the chances are of accepting evolution as fact.

The 2018 World Happiness Index reveals some surprises and explains why the world’s richest country is not one of its happiest.

You see a gorgeous salamander. Science sees the key to regrowing limbs, eyes, and even bones.

Our brains are famously flexible, or “plastic,” because neurons can do new things by forging new or stronger connections with other neurons. But how, exactly, does it do that?

One moment, every particle in the Universe was massless. Then, they weren’t anymore. Here’s how it happened. In the earliest stages of the hot Big Bang, the Universe was filled […]

But is this really a problem for the theory? Or is it physics to the rescue? Dark matter is one of the most powerful, yet one of the most controversial, ideas […]

Is April the cruelest month? What did T.S. Eliot mean by that?

“Obviously, technology product and app designers seek to entice us to use their products. Few designers, however, are worried about the adverse effects of encouraging overuse.”

Almost half of the American workers don’t take all the vacation days they can, leading to increased health risks.

A new study shows that teenagers are increasingly experimenting with marijuana before beer or cigarettes. Is that a good thing?

Is it a super-secret place for the global el33t? Or is it just a bunch of n00bs masquerading as true h4x0rs?

Gender is burdened by a lot of adjectives these days. It’s non-binary, it’s fluid, it’s ‘over’. According to the American rapper Young Thug, an artist at the helm of hip-hop […]