Robotic cars are coming. The IT and automobile industries have the throttle wide open to be the first to get the human out of the loop. The “Google Car” is […]
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New research on the health of bee populations shows that things are still getting worse.
The mission to explore Europa, the moon of Jupiter with twice as much seawater as Earth, has entered “phase B,” meaning the project now has funding from Congress.
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In prohibiting juvenile solitary confinement in federal prisons, President Barack Obama follows the advice of prison experts like Marie Gottschalk. Here she explains the “degrading and dehumanizing” harm caused by extreme isolation.
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The FBI has ordered Apple to create a special version of its software that would remove a security feature, providing investigators with a backdoor to unlock the iPhone through “brute force” methods. Did we mention this iPhone belongs to a terrorist?
Nanotech could revolutionize diagnostics, research and development, drug delivery, tissue repair, and so much more. But challenges remain, and certain threats may arise out of this new technology.
And it doesn’t mean we should give up, but it does mean we’ve got a lot of work to do! “‘Star Trek’ says that it has not all happened, it has […]
If you’re the kind of person who chronically abandons New Year’s resolutions, try “temptation bundling” in 2016.
Best Friends Animal Sanctuary is spearheading a national no-kill shelter movement for cats and dogs.
Now that LIGO’s found two pairs of merging black holes, what does the future hold? “We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to […]
Nicola Thorp was recently sent home without pay for refusing to wear heels. Sexism in the workplace is only the first problem with this footwear.
A group of researchers from MIT has thought of what the next anonymous network might look like.
Living longer, but worrying more. Why?
Writers beware, an AI-written novel just made it past the first round of screening for a national literary prize in Japan. The novel this program co-authored is titled, The Day A Computer Writes A Novel.
If you’ve ever wondered what happens to a tattoo, the answer’s more surprising than you think.
As baby boomers age, Alzheimer’s cases are expected to skyrocket, which threatens to bankrupt Medicare.
We often think of willpower as mentally forging ahead. But to achieve such a mental state, our brain needs proper nourishment.
Om nom nom nom nom… “That what wrong with the media today. All they have is questions, questions, questions. They never have cookies.” –Cookie Monster When most people think of black […]
Though your chronological age records the passage of time, your biological age records what’s happening inside you.
Float tanks are increasing in popularity due to their role in stress reduction and even altered states of consciousness.
Few maximize. Most muddle. So why do economists mainly model the happy few? It makes the math easier, but risks misusing the massive power of markets. Perhaps, like the muddling masses, they should use less math and more logic.
Earth may have suffered a violent impact from a “planetary embryo” called Theia 4.5 billion years ago. This impact allowed the moon to form. But new research suggests Theia also became a part of Earth.
A small animal shuts down CERN’s Large Hadron Collider, the world’s largest scientific instrument, right before an experiment to detect new particles.
A New York legal case could impact us all.
Why universities can no longer afford to access the research they created themselves.
While a “counter-Earth” may be impossible, there are three other ways it could actually work out. “We are not like the social insects. They have only the one way of doing […]
Seismologists are warning about an overdue earthquake. How prepared are we?
Celebrating Hispanic culture, the map-shaped fountain is one of Zaragoza’s more curious attractions
Without the inherent quantum uncertainty to nature, the source of all our light and heat would never shine. “The bedrock nature of space and time and the unification of cosmos and […]