A century ago, electric cars were common. The fact that they were almost entirely replaced due to the internal combustion engine is a testament to the glacial pace of battery breakthroughs.
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Contrary to popular research, people with more money are happier, but it’s their spending habits, not their account balances, that move the dial.
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Cognitive psychologist and poet Keith Holyoak explores whether artificial intelligence could ever achieve poetic authenticity.
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This female-founded brand made Forbes 30 Under 30 list this year for its diverse, authentic, and affordable stock photography.
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In a citizen science project, thousands of pet dogs are helping scientists to understand what happens to memory and cognition in old age.
Most people have a distorted view of what being a scientist is like. Scientists need to make a greater effort to challenge stereotypes.
Uploading your mind is not a pathway to immortality. Instead, it will create a possibly hostile digital doppelgänger.
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Despite their brief history, computers and AI have fundamentally changed what we see, what we know, and what we do.
Regret isn’t just unpleasant, it’s unhealthy.
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Large language models are an impressive advance in AI, but we are far away from achieving human-level capabilities.
With a bigger, better, and more sensitive detector, the XENON collaboration joins LZ and PANDA-X in constraining WIMP dark matter.
Even some philosophers don’t think highly of philosophy, but we need it now more than ever.
In a world of rising cynicism, a celebration of our capacity to create, adapt, and thrive.
The game of Plinko perfectly illustrates chaos theory. Even with indistinguishable initial conditions, the outcome is always uncertain.
From life on Earth to the planet itself, there are four ways our planet will actually experience “the end,” no matter how we define it.
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