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When our imaginations run wild, it’s important to remember that’s our fault, not the data’s. “Otherwise we are trying to communicate with someone who doesn’t exist with a system which doesn’t […]
SETI is searching for the same signals humans were producing in the 1960s. Why wouldn’t aliens do better? “I know perfectly well that at this moment the whole universe is listening […]
10 million prime age men have checked out of the workforce. Let’s improve their prospects.
Bill Nye laughs in the face of the robo-pocalypse. Or more accurately, he laughs at those who worry that AI might run amok. If we build robots that want to kill us, he says, we can just unplug them.
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Japanese doctors reveal how AI software helped save the life of a cancer patient.
Racial bias has been around forever it seems, but it can show up in ugly ways on apps like Airbnb and Nextdoor. Here’s what they’re planning to do about it.
A new study shows that cerebral blood flow within the left and right hippocampus significantly decreases after just 10 days of without exercise.
Work on “memes” by Richard Dawkins provides insight on the spread of thought viruses.
And the wisdom from an exclusive interview with Larry Niven. Ever since humanity had the thought that the distant, twinkling stars might be Suns like our own, with their own planetary […]
The highest energy collisions go beyond any collider… and may hold a fantastic secret! This article was written by Sabine Hossenfelder. Sabine is a theoretical physicist specialized in quantum gravity. […]
A new community planned for Amsterdam will provide all of its own food and energy, without negatively impacting the environment.
Google’s DeepMind creates AI that blows away existing speech synthesizers.
Many predictions by Nikola Tesla, one of the world’s most celebrated inventors, have already come true and some might in the near future.
A second major California fault line has been found near the San Andreas Fault.
It’s tempting to rush success, but Amy Cuddy, professor at Harvard Business School, explains why setting your goals too big can backfire, and vouches for the value of incremental change and authentic learning over the desire to simply ‘win’.
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France is building a solar energy system on top of its roadways.
A Yale study finds implicit racial bias in a study of 132 white and black preschool educators, but in different ways.
Just imagining movement fires the same neurons as if we were actually moving. A new study shows we can wake our sleeping mind to practice motor skills in our dreams.
Instead of an autoimmune disorder, scientists now believe a conspiracy of pathogens cause it.
A team of Harvard researchers 3D prints a fully autonomous octopus-like robot that runs on a chemical reaction.
The Perseid meteor shower is coming, which may put you in the mindset to wonder “What causes a meteor shower?”
Is stellar ejection a real thing, and if so, can planets come along for the ride? “Mapping out the elements in a star is like reading its DNA. We’re using those […]
Looking into the great, dark unknown was a mystery for thousands of years. No longer! “Science cannot tell theology how to construct a doctrine of creation, but you can’t construct a […]
Media strategist, writer, and college drop-out Ryan Holiday questions whether college is just an expensive way to go through the motions.
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This offers hope in the face of a disease which currently has no treatment option to halt its progression.
The FBI’s “face recognition unit” was overwhelmingly made up of “non-criminal entries,” Georgetown researchers found.
ScienceDebate.org sent 20 fine-tuned questions to the presidential candidates. 3 out of 4 of them responded. Here’s where they stand on key science issues.
The FAA has issued a mysterious advisory telling pilots not to trust their GPS for several days this June.
How the James Webb Space Telescope was made. “One way or another the first stars must have influenced our own history, beginning with stirring up everything and producing the other chemical […]