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Chinese hackers at DEFCON have demonstrated how they were able to hack an Amazon Echo unit, enabling them to listen and record unsuspecting targets.
In the search for the youngest planet in the Universe, astronomers may have accidentally stumbled upon something entirely new. Growing up is hard to do in the Universe. In the great […]
There’s a complex biological system behind our intuition.
Climate-driven changes in phytoplankton communities will intensify the blue and green regions of the world’s oceans.
Researchers now have an antibody that specifically targets cancer cells, while leaving healthy ones alone.
The Universe is filled with something, as opposed to nothing, and scientists don’t understand it. When we look around at the Universe: at the planets and stars, at the galaxies […]
Ever recognize the repeating patterns of nature? There’s a theory for that.
A little peek into our past reveals tantalizing details.
Have we turned the corner of a cold winter?
Scientists in Japan have genetically modified chickens to lay eggs containing an extremely valuable protein that helps treat cancer, hepatitis and multiple sclerosis in humans. The cost of one of […]
It had a role in that old farmhouse…
The Seattle tech magnate died from complications of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma.
Physicists sure do give counterintuitive names to the things they find. Most of us are confounded by the idea of relativity when we first encounter it. Objects don’t just move through […]
Ken Segall, the former creative director of advertising at Apple, Inc., says that “there is no such thing as simplicity; there is only the perception of simplicity.” In this video, […]
From the inflationary state that preceded the Big Bang to our cold, lonely, dark energy-dominated fate, the Universe goes through six different eras. We’re living in the last one already. The […]
A new study from the University of Pittsburgh details how the anti-vaxx movement has divided and grown.
Between the noise and frustration, we’re suffering more than ever.
A new AI-produced commercial from Lexus shows how AI might be particularly suited for the advertising industry.
The study was small: 8 people from 8 different countries. But the findings have alarmed scientists.
The lawsuit could someday reach the Supreme Court and change the way the nation’s universities approach college admissions practices.
You can learn good design through these books. Most of which is avoiding bad design.
If texting ‘is starting to feel frustrating, stressful, or if you’re overwhelmed or trapped by it, that’s a good indication that you need to set a boundary.’
A vacuum cleaner is the wrong picture. Time to bust that myth. There are no classes of object in our Universe more extreme than black holes. With so much mass present […]
The solar neighborhood is so different than people imagine. But for the first time, we know what it’s like. When you look up at the stars in the night sky, they […]
China’s rise has necessitated a global PR push. It includes influencing how the movies you watch depict China.
The suicide rate goes up in spring and summer—not winter as many believe—and studies suggest a link between immune-system inflammation from pollen and seasonal depression.
Almost two-thirds of doctors in the U.S. say they’re burned out, depressed, or both. What do we do when the very people charged with safeguarding our health against the effects of burnout are themselves suffering from burnout?
Technology’s rapid advances may slow down, limiting our possibilities.