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If Indiana Jones and Google Earth had a love child, it would be GlobalXplorer, a “space archaeology” software by TED Prize winner Sarah Parcak.
Oakland and San Francisco recently passed taxes on sugar beverages. Is the entire nation next?
Now that the stretch between Thanksgiving and the New Year is upon us the litany of fitness excuses rolls out. Gyms will be sparse, with crowds flocking on certain days […]
Tesla’s Elon Musk gives a grave warning to those trying to hold back self-driving car technology. According to him, we have it all backwards.
It’s time we acknowledge that the 8-hour day isn’t going to work anymore. We need to stop talking about creating more jobs and start talking about shortening the work week.
An explanation of why clean coal is just fiction, or at best a climate-change denier’s fantasy.
Physicists may be close to creating the theoretical “time crystals”.
Harvard bioethics specialist Glenn Cohen considers the complex question of whether humans should mix their genetic material with other animals to create chimeras.
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There are many scientific explanations for ghost sightings. This is the first ever to involve CERN.
Elon Musk has a pretty ambitious plan to get humans to live on Mars in 40 years. Here’s the tech that’ll make that happen.
Researchers found what all viruses have in common and created a therapy that should work on any kind, and will outsmart viral mutation.
All those hours spent trying to get the doctor to fill a prescription should count for something, right?
The laws of physics are symmetric, but the Universe isn’t. Something’s gotta give. “If antimatter and matter make contact, both are destroyed instantly. Physicists call the process ‘annihilation.” –Dan Brown When […]
An ancient philosophy is becoming popular again thanks to author Ryan Holiday.
The thinking behind Turing Machines and “universal systems,” is being extended to build a new kind of physics. “Constructor Theory,” is being developed by David Deutsch and Chiara Marletto to better explain life. It even suggests why morality arose.
Germany is becoming the first country in the world to start operating a fleet of hydrogen-powered passenger trains that emit only steam and water.
No, you are most definitely not entitled to your own facts. In fact, you’re required to disclose what evidence would change your mind! “You must remember, my dear lady, the most […]
In honor of John Glenn, here are some of the most badass things that happened in space that you might not know about — but totally should.
It seems inevitable that there will be a Mars colony, but the path there won’t be easy. There are two key challenges ahead that will push innovation.
A researcher is experimenting with an artificial hippocampus to learn how to strengthen and store memories.l
The Dalai Lama suggests the anger tearing apart nations is a feeling many have of not being needed any more.
Guy Garcia tackles the future of technology in his new novel, Swarm.
The gun industry is in the business of selling its products. Exploiting our belief system is part of its corporate model.
In his new book, Atlantic senior editor Derek Thompson argues for more disfluent feeds in our social media diet.
As driverless cars gain increasing acceptance among the public, what social values, industries, and activities will be displaced, or even made as obsolete as car ownership itself?
Louise Tarrant argues less work is not weakness, but a sign of prosperity and a necessity to the coming automation.
Skeptic John Horgan identifies new theories of matter and the universe that reveal human narcissism.
The world’s favorite 140-character engine has some new changes coming that will hopefully draw in a whole new pool of users.
I trail run early in the morning, in part, to avoid people. Los Angeles might be vast, but spacious it is not. By 6:30 am I’m running up one side […]