Automation technologies manufacture goods or provide labor with minimal human intervention. They can trace their origins as far back as the 16th century—and arguably further—but didn’t take off until the […]
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Apps that warn about close contact with COVID-19 cases can help relax social distancing rules.
Noise pollution is terrible for our health, yet we don’t discuss it often enough.
Even the most unorthodox posthumous plans have their own historical, spiritual, and scientific significance.
David Bienenstock has made it his mission to keep the history of cannabis alive.
This could change how researchers approach vaccine development.
The EmDrive turns out to be the “um…” drive after all, as a new study dubs any previous encouraging EmDrive results “false positives.”
It’s like a little magnetic “nom, nom.”
The microbes that eventually produced the planet’s oxygen had to breathe something, after all.
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A series of recent studies found that people with healthy levels of vitamin D were less likely to contract COVID-19 and suffer severe complications from it.
Controversial physics theory says reality around us behaves like a computer neural network.
A new paper explores how noise from human activities pollutes the oceans, and what we can do to fix it.
The view from beyond Pluto is far enough from Earth that we can see the stars shift. NASA’s New Horizons, humanity’s first spacecraft to encounter Pluto, is more than 4.3 billion […]
The study suggests scientists are underestimating the number of animal species that could generate the next novel coronavirus.
No matter how your year went, Hubble’s views of the Universe never disappoint. Year after year, Hubble’s telescopic views are unparalleled. Saturn, its rings, and 5 of its moons are […]
NASA is scrapping its Apollo-era launcher platform to make room for new infrastructure that will support upcoming Artemis missions.
The program aims to notify people after they’ve come in close contact with someone who tested positive.
From Brahms to Tchaikovsky, here’s a curated list of composers whose music has shaped the classical canon.
“Our mission is to completely replace the use of animals as a food technology by 2035,” said Patrick O. Brown at the 2020 Web Summit.
Their ear structures were not that different from ours.
To overcome burnout, we need to change how we think about the relationship between dignity and work, argues Jonathan Malesic.
How slight differences could have forever changed our cosmic history. 13.8 billion years ago, what we know today as our Universe began with the hot Big Bang. Filled with matter, antimatter […]
Is the Universe the same everywhere? Or are there truly ‘special places’ around? For practically all of human history, one assumption about our place in the Universe had long gone unchallenged: […]
The results suggest eating too much sugar can lead to a drug-like dependence.
Americans have a lower life expectancy than people in other rich countries despite paying much more for healthcare. We explore the number of factors which might explain this difference.
On the largest scales, galaxies don’t simply clump together, but form superclusters. Too bad they don’t remain bound together.
Philosophers Massimo Pigliucci and Greg Lopez discuss how Stoicism can help us gain perspective on our emotions and act with intention in the world.
The improvement in personal well-being might be worth effort.
A new study shows that beauty standards affect whether or not accusers are believed.