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According to author and entrepreneur Steven Kotler, at some point this century, we will confront the prospect of immortality.
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Smart glasses have flopped before. AI could finally make them mainstream.
For decades, cinemas have earned more from concessions than ticket sales. But can their current business model survive in the streaming age?
Are physicists about to decode a mysterious field of science that could have huge implications for your health?
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These startups, space agencies, and aerospace giants are building humanity’s next off-world homes.
There’s a quantum limit to how precisely anything can be measured. By squeezing light, LIGO has now surpassed all previous limitations.
Kids’ underdeveloped brains seem to help them acquire new languages with little effort.
“The surface is no longer a record of every impact the moon has ever had, because at some point, impacts were erasing previous impacts.”
Unfortunately, the Lunar Ark project is an idea more at home in science fiction than science fact.
We’re separating the facts about EVs from the fiction.
As we look to larger cosmic scales, we get a broader view of the expansive cosmic forest, eventually revealing the grandest views of all.
To Einstein, nature had to be rational. But quantum physics showed us that there was not always a way to make it so.
From how life emerged on Earth to why we dream, these unanswered questions continue to perplex scientists.
While one may be helpful, the other may be harmful.
Neuroscience research suggests it might be time to rethink our ideas about when exactly a child becomes an adult.
Science is for everyone, even those possessing strongly held beliefs that seem to conflict with the best available evidence.
Intracellular bacteria promote cancer metastasis by enhancing the tumor cells’ resistance to mechanical stress in the bloodstream
Our brains are hardwired to find fault. The best managers don’t let this steer how they interact with their team.
It’s not for climate science and condensed matter physics. It’s for advancing our understanding beyond spherical cows.
Telegrams were the “Twitter of the 1850s and 1860s” — and they elicited the exact same overblown fears as Twitter does today.
A new control system, demonstrated using MIT’s robotic mini cheetah, enables four-legged robots to jump across uneven terrain in real-time.
How efficiently could quantum engines operate?
Like Dua Lipa, he had to create new rules.
From before the Big Bang to Voyager 1, particle physicist Harry Cliff takes us on a whiz-bang tour of the Universe’s evolution.
From black holes to dark energy to chances for life in the Universe, our cosmic journey to understand it all is just getting started.
By probing the Universe on atomic scales and smaller, we can reveal the entirety of the Standard Model, and with it, the quantum Universe.
Flexible organic circuits might someday hook right into your head.
“In our studies, people who are more intelligent don’t mind wander so often when the task is hard but can do it more when tasks are easy.”