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“We are in the process of finding out what filling the sky with hundreds of thousands of satellites does to all life on Earth.” ― Steven Magee
NYU scientists teach an artificial intelligence program to win at “Battleship” by asking questions.
Your brain’s heightened sensitivity can make you perceptive and creative. But it’s a double-edged sword, researchers find.
No, really. This stuff is getting pushed out as “fact.”
“Sexbots” are coming. They’re supposed to fill in the gap for the career focused, help undermine sex trafficking and abuse, and even curb STI rates, but are these claims true?
The non-lethal weapons lab of the military unveils a futuristic weapon that can create speech and heat out of thin air dozens of miles away.
Elegance, beauty, and mathematical precision makes for a compelling story and an exquisite model. But it doesn’t make it right. Scientific theories, at their best, are simple, straightforward, full of predictive […]
The scientists have traced the signals to just 180 million years after the Big Bang, making the detection the earliest evidence of hydrogen yet observed.
Life never ceases to surprise, even when faced with the unforgiving environment of space.
How do you stop domestic violence in a country with a 1%-2.5% conviction rate? Pakistan’s first-ever Violence Against Women Center makes it safer for survivors of crime to report and prosecute.
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People often say, “I’m just not a math person,” but the truth is that no one’s brain is hardwired for math.
Our bodies may fight Cas9 proteins.
A new study attempts to figure out why the motor cortex sometimes synchronizes to speech as the auditory cortex does.
The term “hodl” originated in a drunken post about Bitcoin from 2013, but it’s evolved into a movement in the cryptocurrency community.
Design thinking is the art of implementing elements from a “designer’s toolkit” to create innovative solutions and systems. When applied the right way, it can offer considerable benefits.
Three questions for the designer of a video game in line with the times.
One of astronomy’s most iconic sights in an artifact of faulty optics. Here’s how a new, great design will overcome it. When you look out at the greatest images of the […]
What are the health and environmental effects of electric night light?
An online conspiracy theory about President Donald Trump is now affecting people and politics in real life.
President Donald Trump attacked Amazon on Twitter Thursday morning, arguing that the online retailer doesn’t pay enough taxes and the USPS is its “delivery boy.”
In the far future, the last star burns out, stellar corpses get violently ejected, and galaxies accelerate away. And then the fun begins. For centuries, the biggest questions about our Universe […]
Humanitarian aid increases human welfare on a global scale, but it can also be one of the greatest ways of spreading influence and diplomatic power.
Singer-songwriter Ryan O’Neal composes the songs of the cosmos.
These cosmic behemoths were enormous from very early times. Here’s how they came to be. One of the biggest challenges for modern astrophysics is to describe how the Universe went from […]
The effect of this trend will be with us for decades to come, experts say.
LIGO’s enormous arms contract and expand as gravitational waves pass through them. But, puzzlingly, so does the light within them. For the past three years, humanity has known a new kind […]
A new study from scientists in China suggests that medical devices could one day restore vision to the blind.
Plant cognitive ecologist Monica Gagliano talks about the challenges facing serious scientific research into plant intelligence.